13300 Dessau Road, Austin, TX 78754, US

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Deed History

Christian Nehring deeded 8 acres to the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Dessau on March 3, 1874.
Christian Nehring deeded 10 acres (includes 8 acres previously deeded) to the trustees of the School at the Southern Church at Dessau on January 6, 1877. The land is to be used for "a grave yard and school house and church".
The surviving members of the Dessau Lutheran Church deeded the 1.37 acres that contain the cemetery to the Dessau Lutheran Cemetery Association on June 22, 1977.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Dessau deeded the remaining 8.234 acres to the Southwestern Texas Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on October 25, 1994.
The Southwestern Texas Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America deeded the 0.9334 acres that the church sits on to the Dessau Lutheran Cemetery Association on July 16, 2001.
The Southwestern Texas Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America deeded the remaining 6.9415 acres to the Cornerstone Baptist Church on July 16, 2001.

Articles of Incorporation for the Dessau Lutheran Cemetery Association dated July 1976.
Dessau Lutheran Cemetery Association By-Laws dated October 2018.
Dessau Lutheran Cemetery Association By-Laws dated October 2023

Constitution of the Evangelical-Lutheran Parish in Dessau, issued and accepted on November 5, 1893.
Transcript for the dedication ceremony for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Dessau Historical Marker conducted on October 20, 1984.
Dessau Lutheran Church closes after 118 years. This article appeared in the Austin American Statesman January 9, 1994.

Descendants of Johann Gottfried Nauert and Dorothea Sophia Moritz Nauert. (PDF 35 pages may take a minute to download)
Picture taken in 1929 on Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas of Luddie Agnes Nauert and her friend Jerry.

Relationship of members of the Grosskopf family and the location of their graves.

Martin Wieland came to America by sailboat from Germany in 1854.
Describes the early days of Dessau. The house is located about one half mile from the cemetery.
Contains Heinrich Wieland's descendants. Two of his sons, Martin Wieland and his half brother Albert are buried in Dessau Cemetery.
Albert and Minnie Wieland on their wedding day 5 Feb 1880.
Albert and Minnie on their 25th wedding anniversary 5 Feb 1905.
Left to right on the porch Minnie, Albert, Minnie’s mother Marie Baldebuck, Ernestine Bock an orphaned niece of Albert adopted by the family, Albert Jr. Left to right on the lawn Marie (married a Fleischer), Caroline (never married) and August in the wagon.
Martin and Carlina Wieland Portrait.