Haag Cemetery
New Braunfels, Comal County, Texas
Marker Inscription
The Haag Cemetery was established for the families of the Haag Brothers: Friedrich (Jakob), Peter (Johann) and Mathias (Mathuas). Emigrating on a long and dangerous voyage from the kingdom of Wurttemberg, Germany, the families purchased land in the 1840s and 1850s and settled in the hills southwest of New Braunfels called the Haag Settlement. Reflecting the families’ heritage, the cemetery headstones of granite, marble, or limestone are inscribed in German. The graves, dating back to 1879, are arranged in rows, oriented east and west with the burials facing east and surrounded by a hand-stacked stone fence. Constructed with much care, the cemetery stands in loving memory of the Haag Family. HISTORIC TEXAS CEMETERY – 2016
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
The Haag brothers—Friedrich, Peter, and Mathias—left the Kingdom of Württemberg on a long and dangerous voyage and bought land in the hills southwest of New Braunfels in the 1840s and 1850s, founding the Haag Settlement. Their family burial ground, with graves dating to 1879, reflects that heritage: headstones of granite, marble, and limestone inscribed in German, laid in east-facing rows behind a hand-stacked stone fence.
Why it matters
The cemetery is a quiet record of German immigration to the Texas Hill Country, where language and custom carried from the old country were literally carved in stone.
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- · Friedrich Haag
- · Peter Haag
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