Publication details
Mehrsprachigkeits-, Interkulturalitäts- und Toleranzunterricht im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert am Beispiel der Zwittauer deutschen Sprachinsel in Böhmen
| Title in English | Multilingual, intercultural and tolerance policy in the 18th and 19th century on the example of the Zwittauer German language island in Bohemia |
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Europa denken, kommunizieren und erfahren Herausforderungen einer teilhabegerechten Europabildung |
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| Web | https://wochenschau-verlag.de/Europa-denken-kommunizieren-und-erfahren/41278 |
| Keywords | the history of everyday life; Svitavy; German language island; microhistory; historical educational research |
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| Description | The former German language island Zwittau is a forgotten region in the middle of the East Bohemian district of Pardubice, from which after the Second World War its German-Bohemian residents were expelled to Germany and Austria and replaced by new Czech residents, mostly from western Ukraine. This happened in many other regions and is basically nothing specific. In 2010, however, the current residents of the village of Chmelík (Hopfendorf, now 120 inhabitants) got the idea to learn something about their own region, the local chronicler Antonín Hurych approached the administration of the village and they supported the efforts financially. In this way, a unique project was created in the years 2011-2015, in the course of which archive materials such as orders from the authorities, school chronicles, registers, parish chronicles and other documents were digitized and translated into Czech. As a result, the book “Ves Chmelík a okolí” by Antonín Hurych was published in 2015. While working on the digitization and translation of the archival material, the researchers noticed various details that were often surprising. In particular, the topics of contact between the German-Bohemian and Czech population and the school system at that time in small German-Bohemian villages revealed potential to be further developed, because the primary sources already invite you to explore general tendencies that have been dealt with in the “great” historiography at the micro level, which could help to describe and explain this general tendencies and thus to expand the macro-historical perspective. |