Venue Information

In the year 1900 two brothers, Louis and Otto Seekatz, constructed the Seekatz Opera House on San Antonio Street in New Braunfels, Texas. Seekatz Opera House played host to the many and varying forms of traveling entertainment at that time including opera and was designed with this purpose in mind. For operas and theater productions, and later motion pictures, seating took place on the main floor while the balconies were packed with spectators.

Due to it's beauty and spaciousness the Seekatz Opera House also thrived with local events throughout the year including many Fourth of July Celebration Dances, New Year's Eve Firemen's Balls, Kindermaskenballs and New Braunfels' seventy-fifth anniversary celebration concerts in 1920. Later, the Candy Kitchen, a popular place for young people to gather, was moved into the lobby bar of the Opera House and was sold to the operator there in 1937. Seekatz Opera House remained the premier event, meeting and production cente ...