Fredericksburg, TX Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

FREDERICKSBURG , smack in the middle of the Hill Country, might at first glance look like a pastiche of a German village, overrun by Biergartens and gingerbread storefronts. In fact it's still pretty much the town founded by six hundred enterprising Germans in 1846. They managed to make – and, uniquely, keep – treaties with the local Comanche, and their community, based on hard work and perseverance, survived through epidemics and civil war. At the weekend, crowds of day-trippers from San Antonio and Austin visit Main Street's galleries, craft shops, antique stores and numerous fancy … more »