Luckenbach (Texas)
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| Foundation : | 1849 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Texas |
| County : | Gillespie County |
| Coordinates : | 30 ° 11 ′ N , 98 ° 45 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
| Residents : | 3 (as of 2006) |
| Population density : | 75 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 0.04 km 2 (approx. 0 mi 2 ) |
| Height : | 476 m |
| Postal code : | 78624 |
| Area code : | +1 830 |
| FIPS : | 48-45024 |
| GNIS ID : | 1378619 |
| Website : | www.luckenbachtexas.com |
Luckenbach is a settlement on community-free area ( unincorporated community ) in southeastern Gillespie County in the US -amerikanischen State Texas , located in the Texas Hill Country . Luckenbach is located on Grape Creek , a tributary of the Pedernales River , and is about 20 kilometers from Fredericksburg, Texas and 80 kilometers north of San Antonio and just as far west of Austin, Texas .
history
Luckenbach was settled by German farmers in the late 1840s , including the brothers Jacob and August Luckenbach. The oldest building in Luckenbach is a general store and saloon , which was opened in 1849 by Minna Engel - whose father was a German traveling preacher. The community, whose first post office opened in 1854 under the name South Grape Creek , was named in 1886 after Minna's fiancé and later husband Albert Luckenbach. The couple moved to Martinsburg in 1892 , which was renamed Albert Luckenbachs to Albert after the opening of a post office . Luckenbach was founded as a trading post and traded with the Comanches , with whom a peace treaty concluded by John O. Meusebach had been in effect since 1847 .
According to some sources, in 1865 - more than 35 years before the Wright brothers - Jacob Brodbeck made the first successful flight in aviation history on a field near Luckenbach, where he worked as a teacher.
The population of Luckenbach grew to a peak of 492 in 1904, but by the 1960s Luckenbach had almost become a ghost town. Hondo Crouch bought in 1970 due to a newspaper ad ( "town - pop. 3 - for sale" ( dt .: City - 3 inhabitants - for sale )) Luckenbach for $ 30,000 and took over the management of the local dance hall, the Luckenbach Dance Hall .
Today Luckenbach still gives the feeling of a ghost town with its small number of inhabitants and its Wild West roots. The two main buildings of Luckenbach are the house in which the post office, the shop and the saloon are located, as well as the dance hall.
Luckenbach and country music
Luckenbach's close connection to country music began in the summer of 1973 when Jerry Jeff Walker recorded the live album Viva Terlingua in the Luckenbach Dance Hall , which became one of the classics in the outlaw movement of country music.
Four years later Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson Luckenbach set a monument with the song " Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) ".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jan Reid: The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock . University of Texas Press, Austin (Texas) 2004, ISBN 0-292-70197-7 , pp. 92 .
Web links
- Official website of Luckenbach and the Luckenbach Dance Hall
- Glen E. Lich, Brandy Schnautz: LUCKENBACH, TX. In: The Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), 1999 ff (English, tshaonline.org ).