Luckenbach (Texas)

Gillespie County

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Luckenbach is a settlement on municipal Wi area ( unincorporated community) in southeastern Gillespie County in the U.S. state of Texas and is located in the Texas Hill Country. Luckenbach is located at Grape Creek, a tributary of the Pedernales River, and is about 20 miles from Fredericksburg ( Texas) and only 80 kilometers north of San Antonio ( Texas) and as far west of Austin (Texas ).

History

Luckenbach was settled at the end of the 1840s by German farmers, including the brothers Jacob and August Luckenbach. The oldest building in Luckenwalde Bach's is a general store and saloon, 1849 by Minna Engel - was opened - whose father was a German itinerant preacher. The community, the first post office was opened in 1854 under the name of South Grape Creek, was named in 1886 by Minna's fiancé and later husband Albert Luckenbach. The couple moved in 1892 to Martinsburg, which was renamed after the opening of a post office in the name of Albert Lucke Bach in Albert. Luckenbach was established as a trading and operational trade with the Comanches, which since 1847 was a closed by John O. Meusebach peace treaty.

According to some sources succeeded in 1865 - more than 35 years before the Wright brothers - Jacob Brodbeck of the first successful flight in aviation history on a field near Luckenbach, where he worked as a teacher.

The population Lucke Bach grew to a peak of 492 in 1904, in the 1960s, Luckenbach, however, was become almost a ghost town. Hondo Crouch bought in 1970 due to a newspaper ad ( "town - pop 3 - for sale. " (English: 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 conveyed with its small population and its Wild West roots still the feeling of a ghost town. The two main buildings Lucke Bach are the house in which the post office, the store and the saloon are located, as well as the dance hall.

Luckenbach and country music

Lucke Bach's close connection to the country music began in the summer of 1973, when Jerry Jeff Walker in the Luckenbach Dance Hall, the live album Viva Terlingua recorded, which became a classic in the outlaw movement of country music.

Four years later, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson Luckenbach sat with the song " Luckenbach, Texas ( Back to the Basics of Love ) " is a monument.