On Farm to Market Road 152, 0.1 miles east of Old School House Road, on the right when traveling west.
Ludwig Schneider and Heinrich Vasterling came from Germany and settled on the north side of the Llano River in 1847. Here Ludwig built the first known log home in Llano county.
In 1872 the first U.S. Post Office was opened on the north side of . . . — — Map (db m164343) HM
On Old School House Road, 0.1 miles south of Ranch to Market Road 152, on the right when traveling south.
Education for students in Castell may have begun as early as 1852, according to local oral tradition. Earliest written records indicate that the Llano County Commissioners Court designated the Castell School as District No. 6 in 1884, and land was . . . — — Map (db m237462) HM
On Farm to Market Road 152, 0.1 miles east of Old School House Road, on the right when traveling west.
In God we trust In honor of the gallant men and women of the Castell Community who served their country in the military forces of Texas and the United States of America during wartime and at peace. Indian Wars Mexican - American War . . . — — Map (db m164342) WM
On Farm to Market Road 2768 at County Highway 104, on the left when traveling west on Highway 2768.
In 1867 on Fisher Miller land grant, 3 settlements were begun by German emigration company under Commissioner General John O. Meusebach.
CASTELL: Settled by Fredericksburg pioneers of the German Emigration Company, was first and only permanent . . . — — Map (db m155725) HM
On County Highway 405, 1.7 miles north of State Highway 29, on the left when traveling north.
Arriving on the Texas coast from Potsdam, Germany, at the onset of the Mexican War in 1846, Emil Kriewitz began his Texas exploits by serving in the U.S. Army. He later was engaged by the Adelsverein to assist German settlement along the Llano . . . — — Map (db m237460) HM
On Ranch to Market Road 152, 0.2 miles east of County Highway 105, on the left when traveling west.
German Lutherans in this area were served by circuit-riding lay minister Dietrich Rode as early as 1870. A congregation was organized in 1893 on the north side of the Llano River in the Leiningen settlement (about 3 mi. E). A second church, known as . . . — — Map (db m237464) HM
On Ranch to Market Road 152, 0.2 miles east of County Highway 105, on the left when traveling west.
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 . . . — — Map (db m237463) HM
On Farm to Market Road 152, 0.1 miles Old School House Road, on the right when traveling west.
Texas Ranger Markers dedicated in the Castell Community
2003
Ludwig Schneider
Christian Schneider Sr
Wilhelm Schneider
Frederick Oestreich
Christian Oestreich
August Leifeste
William Fritze
Theodore Buchholz
Adam Schmidt . . . — — Map (db m164346) WM
On Old School House Road, 0.1 miles south of Ranch to Market Road 152, on the left when traveling south.
The oldest documented grave in this burial ground, that of two-year-old Feodor Leifeste, dates from 1871. Two years later, Carl Lehmberg deeded land to the Methodist Episcopal Church, south setting aside this part of the property for a . . . — — Map (db m155721) HM
On Bauerville Road (County Highway 104) 0.2 miles west of Farm to Market Road 2768, on the right when traveling west.
Early settlers in this area were German immigrants who arrived about 1850. Their first worship services were held about twenty feet north of this site, under a large oak tree on the property of August H. Leifeste, Sr. (1812-1884). During the early . . . — — Map (db m155726) HM
