Guich used the town's rights as a municipality to govern the dance hall as he saw fit. Hondo's wife, Shatzi, paid for the town, and Guich's wife, Patricia, worked as the bartender and bookkeeper giving their husbands all the glory. 3 - for sale' led actor Guich Koock and Hondo Crouch, a rancher and Texas folklorist, to buy Luckenbach for $30,000 in 1970, in partnership with Kathy Morgan. A newspaper advertisement offering 'town - pop. Luckenbach's population increased to a high of 492 in 1904, but by the 1960s it was almost a ghost town. Luckenbach was first established as a community trading post, one of a few that never broke a peace treaty with the Comanche Indians, with whom they traded.Ĭitizens of the town claim a resident (Jacob Brodbeck) launched the first airplane years before the Wright Brothers.

They later moved to another town that became Albert, Texas.

The community, first named Grape Creek (perhaps really a faulty spelling of 'Gap Creek', the literal meaning of 'Luckenbach' in German), was later renamed after Engel's husband, Carl Albert Luckenbach. Its oldest building is a combination general store and saloon reputedly opened in 1849 (1886 is more likely, based on land improvement records of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission) by Minna Engel, whose father was an itinerant minister from Germany. In 1848, the Texas Legislature formed Gillespie County from Bexar and Travis Counties. On December 15, 1847, a petition was submitted to create Gillespie County.

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