09/23/2026
In 1868, a 24-year-old Civil War veteran arrived in New Braunfels with a sack of flour and about a dollar in his pocket. Somehow, that was enough to start a bakery that is still here 158 years later.
Edouard Naegelin opened his first bakery at the corner of Seguin and Mill streets, serving bread to a growing little Texas town. Two years later he moved the bakery to South Seguin Avenue, where generations of New Braunfels families would grow up stopping in for bread, pastries and strudel. Today, Naegelin’s is recognized as the oldest continuously operating bakery in Texas... and you can still walk through the door and buy a tasty treat from a business that began in 1868.
