Jubilee Park Pavilion

Nordheim began in 1895 as a railroad siding, Weldon Switch, and was renamed in 1897 for William Frobese's German hometown. Its Silver Jubilee of 1922 drew a threat from the Ku Klux Klan of Runge, who said they would march against home brew and gambling. Nordheim's Germans said they were ready, and the Klan changed its plans. The Handbook puts the band pavilion and park on Pilot Knob, 447 feet high, and calls the town band the only continuous pioneer German brass band then playing in Texas.

What the plaque says

Jubilee Park Pavilion Built 1923 in park donated to city on 25th anniversary of its founding. Some of wood came from floats used in the Jubilee Parade. Nordheim Brass Band (first organized 1896) has given many typical German concerts here, and through years, Pavilion has been a focal point of civic entertainment. (1969)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Panna Maria — 17 mi
  The Silesian village on a plateau above the San Antonio River that claims the oldest permanent Polish settlement in America, with a church of 1878 and a ceiling found again in 2000.
• Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum — 23 mi
  A cattle-country museum in Cuero's 1903 Knights of Pythias Hall, telling the Guadalupe Valley's 1866 drive north and the Sutton-Taylor feud that bloodied DeWitt County.
• Goliad State Park and Historic Site — 23 mi
  Mission Espíritu Santo on the San Antonio River, a mission ranch whose herds seeded Texas cattle country, rebuilt from ruin by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.
• Zaragoza Birthplace State Historic Site — 24 mi
  A rebuilt stone house beside La Bahía marking where Ignacio Seguín Zaragoza, the general of the Battle of Puebla and Cinco de Mayo, was born in 1829.

More markers nearby

• Nordheim Shooting Club — 0.4 mi
• Pilot Knob — 0.6 mi
• Cabeza — 5.0 mi
• Runge, Texas — 6.6 mi