Comfort is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kendall County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 2,363. Comfort was founded by German emigrants on the western decrease of the Texas-German belt. Many residents of the town today are descendants of those similar Germans. Comfort is known for its German Heritage and large ranches outside of town.

Comfort was established in 1854 by German immigrants, who were Freethinkers and abolitionists. Ernst Hermann Altgelt, at the age of 22, is ascribed with surveying and measuring the lots that would forward-thinking be sold to the incoming German immigrants. He stayed and married Emma (Murck) Altgelt, and they raised their nine children in the township of Comfort. Fritz and Betty Holekamp built the first home in Comfort, having started construction back Comfort’s qualified founding upon September 3, 1854. The first churches were not usual in Comfort until 1900. After some controversy, a cenotaph honoring “the Founding Freethinkers” was dedicated upon November 2, 2002.

The downtown area is possibly one of the most well-preserved historic matter districts in Texas. There are competently over 100 structures in the Place dating back up to the 19th century, and seven of them were meant by the noted architect Alfred Giles. Mr. Giles lived in San Antonio, and he would ride horses, the stagecoach, and higher the train to check his building sites in Comfort. Most of the population today is composed of descendants of those indigenous pioneer families of the 1850s and the 1860s.

Comfort is afterward known for a tragic situation that took place during the American Civil War. The Treue der Union Monument (“Loyalty to the Union”) was dedicated in honor of 35 men who died at the Battle of the Nueces, which took place because they opposed the state’s secession from the Union. The German settlers were killed on their way to Mexico during the Civil War. They were attacked by Confederate forces near Brackettville upon August 10, 1862. The bodies were not buried, and the bones were retrieved and placed here in 1865. The monument was erected in 1866.