Home of Ferdinand Lindheimer

The paper Lindheimer edited began as a booster's project. Citizens raised money by subscription for a press to advertise the town, draw immigrants and lift land values, with Carl Daniel Adolph Douai helping, and the first weekly appeared on November 12, 1852. Lindheimer later became its publisher and used it to air his anticlerical views; in the Civil War he backed the Confederacy on states' rights grounds. The paper kept printing in German until 1957, when its new owners dropped the German section, and it survives as the Herald-Zeitung.

What the plaque says

Home of Ferdinand Lindheimer (1801-1879) Soldier in Texas Revolution. Father of Texas botany. Editor of the Neu Braunfels Zeitung. (1852-1872) (Comal Ave., New Braunfels)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sophienburg Museum and Archives — 0.4 mi
  The hilltop where Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels raised the Adelsverein's headquarters in 1845, now the museum and archive of the German colony that became New Braunfels.
• Gruene Historic District — 2.7 mi
  A cotton town on the Guadalupe that the boll weevil emptied, rescued in the 1970s by a kayaking architecture student, with a dance hall that says it has never closed.
• Natural Bridge Caverns — 14 mi
  The largest known cavern in Texas, found in 1960 by four college cavers under a ranch family's land, entered beneath a 60-foot limestone bridge and still growing.
• Spring Lake and the Meadows Center — 17 mi
  The headsprings of the San Marcos River, among the longest-inhabited places in North America, once an amusement park with a swimming pig and now seen from glass-bottom boats.

More markers nearby

• Johann Michael Jahn — steps away
• Texas Germans in the Civil War — steps away
• The New Braunfels Herald — 0.4 mi
• Hermann Seele — 0.4 mi