Comfort Community Theatre

Comfort was laid out in 1854 by Ernst Hermann Altgelt near the site of an Indian village, though Germans from New Braunfels had settled along Cypress Creek above the Guadalupe two years earlier. Freemasons, freethinkers and political activists, many from Bettina and Sisterdale, organized the town along cooperative lines and steadily opposed formal local government. A school opened soon after the founding, but no church was built until 1892. From 1856 until Kendall County was organized in 1862, Comfort contended with Kerrville to be the county seat of Kerr County, and Kerrville won.

What the plaque says

Comfort Community Theatre The need for a permanent civic center led Comfort business leaders to form a corporation to raise funds for its construction. Designed by Fredericksburg architect Hans Christiansen, the Comfort Community Theatre opened in 1930, providing the town with facilities for basketball, dances, civic meetings, stage plays, and private parties. It was later used as a movie theatre and enjoyed much success under the ownership of Hank Zimmerman from 1947 until 1964. The Comfort Community Theatre continues today as a performing arts center as well as a civic meeting hall. Incise on base: Purchased and restored by Richard and Dorothy Britt. (1983)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Treue der Union Monument — 0.4 mi
  An 1866 German-language monument in Comfort over the graves of Hill Country Unionists killed at the Nueces in 1862, its flag of thirty-six stars kept at half-staff.
• Old Tunnel State Park — 11 mi
  A railroad tunnel abandoned in 1942 that now shelters up to three million Mexican free-tailed bats, who fly out each evening from May through October.
• Schreiner Mansion — 15 mi
  The 1879 downtown home of Charles Schreiner, the Alsatian-born merchant, banker and rancher whose store and mohair trade built Kerrville.
• Luckenbach — 17 mi
  A store, saloon and dance hall on Grape Creek that a humorist bought in 1971, declared a free state of mind, and turned into a pilgrimage for Texas music.

More markers nearby

• Peter Joseph Ingenhuett Homestead — steps away
• Hermann and Antoine Ingenhuett Homestead — steps away
• Meyer Hotel Complex — 0.3 mi
• Freidenker — 0.4 mi