Golf in Cullman

Cullman is the county seat of Cullman County in north Alabama, a city founded by Bavarian immigrant John Cullmann in 1873 and developed by German and other European immigrants who brought their agricultural methods and cultural traditions to the Cumberland Plateau foothills of the region. The city's German heritage is celebrated annually at the Oktoberfest festival and preserved in the Ave Maria Grotto, a collection of miniature religious structures built over thirty years by a Benedictine monk. The rolling terrain of Cullman County, shaped by the Cumberland Plateau's forested ridgelines and creek drainages, creates natural conditions for golf in a community whose European heritage has influenced its civic culture.