Category: Events

Easter Holiday at the Museum

The Texas Wendish Heritage Museum will be closed April 14th-18th to allow our staff and volunteers to celebrate Holy Week and Easter. We will reopen with our normal hours on Tuesday, April 19th. If you need to reach us, please email us at museum@texaswendish.org .

Wendish Language Course- February 8,2020

Weldon will be hosting another Wendish Language course tomorrow at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Giddings 9-4. For the first time, the Wendish Research Exchange will offer a live stream of the class available to anyone with an internet connection. Just print the handouts below and click the link...

Annual Walk-in Coffee

The Texas Wendish Heritage Society will sponsor a Walk-In Coffee on Tuesday, February 11, 2020, in the Fellowship Hall of the Immanuel Lutheran Church, located on the 300 block Grimes in Giddings. Sandwiches, chips, pickles, drinks, and desserts will be available from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm.  Free...

Scholarship Program Fundraiser

Sunday January 27, 2019 DRIVE-THRU TO-GO ONLY Pick-Up 10:00am to 12:30pm Wendish Museum @ Serbin, Texas MENU: Cup of Wendish Bird Wedding Soup – Pork Steak – Wendish Noodles – Green Beans – Corn – Pickles – Peaches – Homemade Bread TICKETS $10.00 PRESALE ONLY Available Through Wednesday,...

President’s Message

Witaj! (Hello!) from the Wendish Museum! As we start to see the promise of cooler weather (finally!), and with the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidaysjust around the corner, I give thanks for each and every one of our members and supporters. The Texas Wendish Heritage Society and Museum would...

47th Annual Texas Folklife Festival

The 47th Texas Folklife Festival will be held this year during June 8-10 on the grounds of the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Institute of Texan Cultures. TWHS will have a booth at the festival thanks to Ron Knippa with his family and many friends who do...

Serbin Homecoming Picnic

The 2018 Serbin Homecoming Picnic will be Sunday, May 27 on the picnic grounds of St. Paul Lutheran Church. It will be a fun day of worship, fellowship, and the best barbecue in town.  Come early – before the barbecue is gone! The Museum will open at 10:00...

Report on the 46th Annual Texas Folklife Festival

The 2017 Folklife Festival, June 9-11 at San Antonio’s Institute of Texan Cultures, was held under beautiful blue skies, and the Wends were there! We served delicious food that included noodles from the TWHS kitchen thanks to Hattie and others, koch kaese sandwiches, barbecue chicken drumsticks with an...