St. John Lutheran Church Cemetery

The congregation that bought this ground grew from the Leiningen settlement, named in 1847 for Prince Carl of Leiningen, first president of the Adelsverein. Born in 1804 at Amorbach, he was a half brother of the future Queen Victoria and studied law at Gottingen. He led the society in name only; by 1844 he headed the Bavarian Imperial Council and pressed for a parliamentary system and the end of aristocratic privilege. In August 1848 he became head of the first ministry of the German Reich, resigned within a month, and left the Adelsverein in 1851.

What the plaque says

St. John Lutheran Church Cemetery The congregation of St. John Lutheran Church had been meeting in its new sanctuary for some four years when the death of one of its members, Anna Charlotte Lillie (Kowierschke) Bauer (1905-1930), led to the purchase of this half acre for use as the church cemetery. Her in-laws, J.W. Bauer (1874-1932) and Bertha (Flint) Bauer (1872-1956), are buried nearby in the same plot. The older grave of Christian Schneider (1838-1920) was moved here from an endangered location near the Llano River. Church members and family descendants care for this site that is a record of the lives of many of the Castell area's beloved citizens. Historic Texas Cemetery - 2001

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Enchanted Rock State Natural Area — 15 mi
  A dome of pink granite north of Fredericksburg that rises some 385 feet above Sandy Creek, creaks as it cools at night, and has drawn people for thousands of years.
• Llano County Courthouse Square — 16 mi
  The 1893 Romanesque courthouse on Llano's square, built after a fire at the height of a boom that was meant to make the granite town an iron city.
• Fort Mason — 17 mi
  A reconstructed officers' quarters on Post Oak Hill above Mason, standing where the army's stone fort was taken apart by the town that grew up below it.
• Eckert James River Bat Cave Preserve — 25 mi
  A limestone cave on the James River where about four million Mexican free-tailed bats raise their young each summer, kept open to visitors by a family's gift.

More markers nearby

• St. John Lutheran Church — steps away
• Trinity United Methodist Church Cemetery — 0.7 mi
• Castell School — 0.8 mi
• German Settlements — 0.9 mi