26th Annual Wendish Fest Schedule of Events
Featured entertainment this year will be The Oak Wilt Boys performing on stage following the Live Auction!
Each year the Texas Wendish Heritage Society host a festival on the fourth Sunday in September. This years event will be on September 28. Events are scheduled throughout the day beginning with the church services at St. Paul Lutheran Church.
St. Paul Lutheran Church
English Church Service … 8:30
Bible Class and Sunday School … 9:30
German Church Service … 10:30
Church Tours … 12:30 to 2:30
Picnic Grounds
Meal ticket sales … 9:45 (meal served until 1:30)
Sausage • Sauerkraut • Green Beans • Wendish Noodles • Beets • Peaches • Homemade Bread
Desserts purchased separately
Coffee or Tea
Adults $8.00 ♦ Children $3.00 ♦ Take-out plates $8.00
Silent Auction … 10:00 to 2:30
Entry deadline for Coffee-cake Bake-off … 10:30
Coffee Cake Winners announced… 12:30
Washer pitching contest sign-up … 1:30
Afternoon Events … 2:00 to TBA
- Washer pitching contest begins
- Sausage stuffing and noodle-making demonstrations
- Snack booth opens
Sausage & Sauerkraut Boats & Wraps
Drumsticks • Wendish Noodles • Desserts
Cold Drinks & Homemade Ice Cream - Live Auction – bid on top winners in the Coffee-cake Bake-off competition.
- Featured entertainment
Cross-cut Saw Contest … 4:45
The Museum Complex
The Museum Complex will be open from 10:00 until 5:00.
Peter Building
- General help and Information
- First-aid
- Library
- Genealogy
St. Paul Building (North side of the Courtyard)
Permanent Exhibits
Kilian Building (South side of the Courtyard)
Wendish Easter egg decorating Kilian Building … 10:00 – 3:00
- Susan and Michael Unger, Houston, Texas
- Sandra Matthijetz, Winchester, Texas
TWHS Craft Booth (Entrance Circle Drive)
St. Paul Picnic Grounds
Exhibitions and Demonstrations
- Stone Ground Corn Meal
- Sauerkraut & Noodle Making
- Vintage Machinery
- By-Gone Years
- Spinning
- Quilting
- Central Texas Old Iron Collectors Tractor Exhibit
- Blacksmithing
- Home-made Soap
- Sausage Stuffing
- Lace-making
- Rope-making
Childrens Activities
- Coloring Contest … 1:30
- Train Rides by SLCVFD … about 1:30
- Face painting
- Kletternpfosten (pole climbing contest)
- Stick horse races … 1:00
What date is the annual festival for 2015?
The 27th Annual Wendish Fest is on Sunday, September 27, 2015.