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 Trinity Lutheran Church Posted by:  QuesterMark
N 29° 46.766 W 096° 09.496
14R E 774740 N 3297730
This post-mounted subject marker stands in front of the church, to the right of the front door, facing Atchison Street in Sealy.
Waymark Code: WM1645V
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/01/2022
Views: 4
Marker erected by the Texas Historical Commission.
Texas Historical Commission Atlas data:
Index Entry Trinity Lutheran Church
Address 402 Atchinson Street
City Sealy
County Austin
Subject Codes religious, Lutheran
Marker Year 2013
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark No
Private Property No
Marker Condition In Situ
Marker Size 27" x 42" with post
Marker Number: 17605
Marker Text:
After preaching his first sermon in Sealy on February 11, 1883, Lutheran missionary Reverend John Trinklein organized the Trinity Lutheran Church congregation on October 31 of that same year. In the beginning, most of the congregation was of German heritage and many early church records were written in German. The congregation dedicated its first church structure, a 24 by 34-foot frame building, on July 25, 1886. In March 1891, the congregation bought the church site from the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company. Repaired after sustaining serious damage in the Great Storm of 1900, the original church building remained in use until it was replaced in 1940 by a larger 60 by 30-foot building. The current brick-clad sanctuary dates from 1963, when it and five new Sunday school rooms were dedicated.
From 1883 to 2012, twenty-five pastors, including Rev. Trinklein, served the congregation. During its first dozen years, the church shared Pastors Paul G. Heckel (1890-93) and P.A. Wenzel (1893-1895) with the Lutheran congregations in Cat Spring and Pattison. In 1895, Pastor A.R. Roglitz became the church’s first pastor to live in Sealy. Over the years, the church campus grew to meet the congregation’s needs. In September 1913, a 20 by 30-foot Sunday school building, located next to the parsonage, was dedicated. The campus further expanded with additions to the Sunday school building in 1949 and construction of a new parish hall in 1955. For decades, the church supported activities such as the Ladies Aid Society, organized in April 1895, and the annual bar-b-que that started in 1963 to raise funds for local charities.
(2013)
Marker is Property of the State of Texas
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