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Schulenburg is a city in southern Fayette County, Texas, founded in 1873 when the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway built through the site, and named for Louis Schulenburg, who donated land for the railroad.

The Schulenburg area was settled by German, Austrian, and Czech immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century, and their heritage remains visible in the town's churches, music, and customs.

Schulenburg was designated by the Texas Legislature in 2005 as the Official Home of the Painted Churches of Texas, the richly decorated Catholic churches built by Czech and German settlers in surrounding communities such as High Hill, Praha, Moravia, and Ammannsville.

The painted churches of the Schulenburg area were listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and the Schulenburg Chamber of Commerce runs guided tours of them.

Schulenburg had a population of 2,633 at the 2020 census, up from 2,455 in 1990, continuing a slow, steady climb from just 1,000 residents in 1884.

By 1884, only eleven years after its founding, Schulenburg already had 1,000 inhabitants, two churches, a bank, schools, thirteen general stores, and four saloons, and it had electric lights by 1896.

Schulenburg has a rich polka music heritage, with historic orchestras such as the Gold Chain Bohemian Band, and is home to the Texas Polka Music Museum.

Schulenburg is home to the Stanzel Model Aircraft Museum, honoring the Stanzel Company, which manufactured model airplanes in the town from the 1940s era.

Schulenburg sits on Interstate 10 about halfway between Houston and San Antonio, roughly eighteen miles south of the county seat, La Grange.

St. Mary's Catholic Church at nearby High Hill, built in 1906 and painted in 1912, is known as the 'Queen of the Painted Churches.'