​Waldeck Evangelical
​Lutheran Church

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Marker No: 13187

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 30.055403,-96.803101

Location: ​South at intersection of FM 2145 and FM 1291, Ledbetter

Marker Text: ​Before 1900, the German families of Waldeck, once called Long Prairie, were served by German-speaking Methodist missionaries; by 1885, a congregation had organized. In December 1899, the Rev. August Wenzel led local Lutherans in starting a new congregation, which organized as Waldeck Evangelical Lutheran Zion. Pastor Carl Baer became the church's first salaried minister. The schoolhouse until 1926, when it bought the Methodist Episcopal Sanctuary from the declining neighbor congregation at this site. By that time, the Lutheran Church offered Sunday school classes. Within a few decades, it also celebrated with church picnics, programs and community services, all of which continue today. (2003)