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Plehwe Complex

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
83003755

Added to NRHP
  
15 December 1983

Built
  
1855 (1855)

Opened
  
1855

Nearest city
  
Leon Springs, Texas

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The Plehwe Complex is a set of historic saltbox houses on Boerne Stage Road near Leon Springs in Bexar County, Texas, United States. The place is also known as Plehwe Stage Coach Inn, a competitor to the Aue Stage Coach Inn just around the corner in 750 yards distance. The buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 15, 1983.

Owners

The original owners were Capt. Charles Felix George von Plehwe and his spouse Mina Sophie von Plehwe, who did not have any children of their own. Charles was the nephew of Senior General Bernard von Plehwe of the Prussian Cavalry. Charles looked after the “half-wit” son Otto von Plehwe (a.k.a. Fritz von Plehwe), who immigrated approximately 1862 together with his orderly, the former valet of his father, Joseph Peter Potschernick. Joseph had the fare to return to Germany but elected to remain with the von Plehwe family in the United States.

The buildings on an 100-acre ground are now owned and maintained by George Strait.

References

Plehwe Complex Wikipedia