New Offenburg, Missouri
New Offenburg is a census-designated place in Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri, Missouri, United States. It is located approximately ten miles southwest of Ste. Genevieve on Route 32.
The community was named after Offenburg, a German city between the Black Forest and the river Rhine, the place where its early settlers originated from.
History
In 1867 the settlers in New Offenburg founded a first Post Office. The small settlement developed around this post office. New Offenburg was on the Missouri – Illinois Railroad, a major railroad that operated between 1921 and 1978. Today New Offenburg is on Missouri State Route 32.German-speaking descendants of the immigrants at that time live in New Offenburg to this day and speak a dialect of Baden in addition to American English. Other speakers of the Baden dialects can be found in Weingarten and Zell.