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The Deutsches Haus represents the center of German-American cultural activities in New Orleans. The forming organizations of the Haus - the Deutsche Gesellschaft von New Orleans and several other groups - date back to 1848. In 1928, the Deutsches Haus was founded as a benevolent and social group to serve the German immigrant population in New Orleans. In the same Mid-City building since 1928, the Haus has had a long-term presence in Mid-City New Orleans just two blocks off Canal on Galvez Street, a former working class German community. The Deutsches Haus is an old Cumberland telephone and telegram exchange building that dates to 1910, which includes an upstairs ball room with a pressed tin ceiling and walls and a former bowling alley that was added to the Galvez Street building in the 1940s, making it one of the very first bowling alleys in New Orleans. The Haus has grown into a member-supported organization that promotes the culture, music, language, and history of Germans and German-Americans. Every fall the Haus holds Oktoberfest – a fundraiser and celebration that features German food, beer, wine, and traditional music.
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Address: 200 South Galvez Street Additional Information: www.deutscheshaus.org |
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"We’re the last of the three main immigrant groups that came into New Orleans during the late 1800s and early 1900s and we’re the only group that officially has a designated meeting place, someplace where all can meet other than going to a restaurant or something like that. With the Deutsches Haus and the Germans, we’re the last hold out. I think you can co-exist with a city and still not get rid of all your remembrances of the past. That’s not really even the right way to put it, because it’s not a remembrance of the past. We’re still a vital club. Of all the things and the people in the neighborhood, we were the first ones that came in and said “we can’t let it go” and this was after so many of us lost our own homes. The majority of the renovations after the storm, we did in-house. That would be the hardest thing if we had to leave – seeing the Haus destroyed and then rebuilding it only to see it come down again." "I moved to New Orleans in 1984 and the first six years of being here, I didn’t know the Deutsches Haus existed and then I met another young lady from Stuggart, Germany. I was born and raised in a small country town directly next to the Luxembourg border called Daleiden. She brought me to the Deustsches Huas and that’s how I became a member. I’ve been a member ever since. I would hate to loose my home away from home. That’s how I feel about this place." |
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