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Schnitzelburg is a neighborhood three miles southeast of downtown
The area was first platted in 1866 by D.H. Meriwether and known as Meriwether's Enlargement. Actual construction did not begin until 1891, when a
Manual Stadium is located in Schnitzelburg.
Schnitzelburg is known for its number of "Shotgun-Style" homes where the homes are built narrowly with rooms being situated generally one after the other in a long row.
Images of Schnitzelburg (Louisville, Ky.) in the University of Louisville Libraries Digital Collections
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Louisville, Kentucky
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. Schnitzelburg's boundaries are Clarks Lane to the south, Shelby Street to the west, the CSX
CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Railroad classes, Class I freight railroad company operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Operating about 21,000 route miles () of trac ...
railroad
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...
tracks to the north, and Goss Avenue to the east.
History
The area was first platted in 1866 by D.H. Meriwether and known as Meriwether's Enlargement. Actual construction did not begin until 1891, when a streetcar line
A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is an urban rail transit in which vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some include segment ...
extended to the intersection of Goss and Texas Avenues. The first residents in Schnitzelburg were immigrants who arrived from Germany. "Schnitzel
Schnitzel () is a thin slice of meat. The meat is usually thinned by pounding with a meat tenderizer. Most commonly, the meat is breaded before frying. Breaded schnitzel is popular in many countries and is made using veal, pork, Chicken as foo ...
" refers to a food dish, popular with Austrians and Germans.
Culture
Schnitzelburg is famous for a street ball game called "Dainty," where a flat, bat-like stick is used to strike another stick on the ground, making it airborne, which is then hit like a baseball as far as possible. Every last Monday in July, the World Dainty Championship is held in the neighborhood, at the corner of Goss Avenue and Hoertz Avenue, the site of Hauck's Handy Store. The Dainty is a fundraiser for the Little Sisters of the Poor. Contestants must be 45 and older to play the Dainty.
Manual Stadium is located in Schnitzelburg.
Schnitzelburg is known for its number of "Shotgun-Style" homes where the homes are built narrowly with rooms being situated generally one after the other in a long row.
Demographics
As of 2000, the population of Schnitzelburg was 4,420. 92.7 percent of the residents were white, and 5.1 percent were black. Hispanics made up 1.7 of the population, and 3.2 percent were listed as "other." 22.8 percent of that population were college graduates, while 20.7 percent of the population did not have a high school degree. Females outnumber males by 51.1 to 48.9 percent.See also
*German American
German Americans (, ) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry.
According to the United States Census Bureau's figures from 2022, German Americans make up roughly 41 million people in the US, which is approximately 12% of the pop ...
*History of the Germans in Louisville
The history of Germans in Louisville began in 1817. In that year, a man named August David Ehrich, a master shoe maker born in Königsberg, arrived in Louisville. Ehrich was the first native-born German in Louisville, but as early as 1787, Penns ...
References
External links
Images of Schnitzelburg (Louisville, Ky.) in the University of Louisville Libraries Digital Collections
{{Louisville German-American culture in Louisville, Kentucky Neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky Populated places established in 1866 1866 establishments in Kentucky