Collections
Warnoćicy. Sorbian traces
Warnoćicy is the Sorbian name for the Czech town of Varnsdorf. For many a Sorb it is at the same time a historical event and a memory reaching back to the first years after World War II when the town became a centre of Sorbian life in Bohemia und the most important place of Sorbian education. Over ten stops of the cultural-historical educational trail “Warnoćicy” you can acquaint yourself with stories of that era’s everyday Sorbian life in Varnsdorf.
Customs and festivities Spree-Neisse
Linguistic landscape Schleife
The linguistic landscape of Schleife can be heard and seen. Its diversity is expressed in the spoken word, in books and manuscripts, in names, through historical personalities, in audio documents, on maps, signs, and dictionaries. The existence of the particular Sorbian language variant of Schleife has been shaping the area in the very Northeast of Saxony for centuries and has given rise to a cultural heritage that can be experienced on these pages.
Estate of Kito and Bogumił Šwjela
Digitizing the complete estate of teacher Kito Šwjela (1836–1922) and his son, pastor Bogumił Šwjela (1873–1948), from the holdings of the Sorbian Cultural Archive has made this substantive collection of Sorbian cultural heritage accessible online.
Sources of Sorbian history 1918–1945
Parallel traditions und sources with different perspectives than those found in the Sorbian Cultural Archive are scattered across various archives and collections. Thus this module was developed, offering an overview of the diversity and importance of these scattered archive holdings.
Cultural lexicon DIGITAL
Knowledge of the old-established minority in both Lusatias has been scattered so far, but is now summarised in the lexicon at hand in its digitized form. More than 200 academic articles give an insight into the current state of research of several arts disciplines.
The Herrnhut memoirs
The autobiographic memoirs of the “Unity of Brethren” from Herrnhut hold a great treasure for Sorbian historical research. They make the everyday life of the Sorbian population in Upper and Lower Lusatia in the Eighteenth century tangible.
The Sorbian church in Lübben
The edition at hand contains fifty documents of the Sorbian church in Lübben (which was directly subordinate to the sovereignty) in the margraviate Lower Lusatia. The documents date from the period between 1540 and 1791 and draw a picture of the time of Sorbian Protestant-Lutheran pastoral care in Lübben.
The statistics of Sorbs by Arnošt Muka
The “Statistika łužiskich Serbow” (Statistics of Lusatian Sorbs, Budyšin/Bautzen 1886) by Arnošt Muka is among the major texts of Sorbian academic journalism in the 19th century. This work of Muka – who is among the protagonists of the movement of Sorbian students – represents the beginning of Sorbian sociology and follows the tradition of older demographic and regional statistics.