The villages in which our ancestors lived in Lusatia were sites of manors. These manors, or landed-estates, were in possession of noblemen for many generations. The manorial system in Lusatia began as soon as the Sorbs lost their independence. Armed attacks against the Sorbs started in 806 under Charles the Great (Charlemagne) of the Franks […]
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The Sorbs, as they always wanted to be called, or Wends, as the Germans, called them, descended from the Slavs. Numerically, the Slavs are the largest linguistic group in Europe, numbering some two hundred million people. The geographical origin of the Slavs has always been problematic. Their history pre-dates the Christian era. Roman historians, Pliny
Mato Kosyk was born in Werben in 1853 and died in America in 1940. At first a railway worker and later a Lutheran pastor, he became a leading Lower Wendish poet. He immigrated to America and concerned himself until his death with the Wendish immigrants to the country. He penned the famous Lower Wendish epics
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As a child I remember Uncle Adolph Hohle from Houston and his next door neighbor and half-brother Ernest Bamsch, coming to visit their respective half and step-brother, C. B. (Ben) Hohle (my father), the son of Maria nee Bamsch Hohle at The Grove, Texas. On numerous of these summer visits they would bring along their
A translation from the original Wendish by Rev. Dr. Elmer M. Hohle of Rev. Jan Kilian’s liturgical Collects for the Epistle and the Gospel for the Lutheran church’s ecclesiastical observance on October 31. It has been a longstanding wish of Pastor Hohle that he be granted permission to pray this prayer in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
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Even though Dr Roland Marti is not a Wend by birth he has chosen Wendish studies as his lifetime work. If you are able to easily learn foreign languages we would like to encourage you to consider Wendish or Sorbian as a field of study. Dr Roland Marti was born in 1953 in Geneva (Switzerland).
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