The German-Pennsylvanian Archive (Deutsch-Pennsylvanisches Archiv) is a collection of books, manuscripts, audio files, etc. about the
Pennsylvania German
The Pennsylvania Dutch (), also referred to as Pennsylvania Germans, are an ethnic group in Pennsylvania in the United States, Ontario in Canada, and other regions of both nations. They largely originate from the Palatinate region of Germany ...
language and culture. The archive is located in the
Palatinate, Germany. It was founded in 1993 in
Ludwigshafen am Rhein
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by
Michael Werner, publisher of the Pennsylvania German newspaper
Hiwwe wie Driwwe. It was moved to
Ebertsheim in 1996 and to
Ober-Olm in 2000. The archive is a member of the
German-Pennsylvanian Association (Deutsch-Pennsylvanischer Arbeitskreis e.V.) in Germany. In 2017, the German-Pennsylvanian Archive was donated to the "Mennonite Research Center" (Mennonitische Forschungsstelle) at
Weierhof,
Palatinate (Germany). Actually, the archive consists of about 1,500 books and more than 16,000 texts of Pennsylvania German prose and poetry. Additionally, the archive holds a collection of about 800 Pennsylvania German groundhog lodge stories. At the new location, the collection is open to the public.
References
External links
Mennonitische ForschungsstelleDeutsch-Pennsylvanischer Arbeitskreis e. V.Hiwwe wie Driwwe - The Pennsylvania German Newspaper
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