Maćica Serbska

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The Maćica Serbska ( listen ? / I ; Lower Sorbian Maśica Serbska , abbreviation MS ) is a scientific society of the Sorbs . Its aims are to promote Sorbian science and to spread knowledge about the Sorbs and their culture. The Maćica is the oldest still existing Sorbian association. Audio file / audio sample

history

Maćica Serbska was founded in Bautzen in 1847 by, among others, Handrij Zejler , Jan Arnošt Smoler , Korla Jan Smoler and Křesćan Bohuwěr Pful as an association for the publication of Sorbian literature. Over the years it has developed into the interdenominational center of Sorbian cultural and scientific activities. The members of the society carried out research on linguistics, history, literary history, folklore and demography. From 1848 to 1937 the company published its own magazine, the Časopis Maćicy Serbskeje (ČMS).

In the revolutionary year of 1848 , the club members turned to the Saxon court with a petition; In it they called for Sorbian to be treated equally with German in the school system and by the local authorities. In the second half of the 19th century, Maćica Serbska played a major role in creating a uniform Upper Sorbian written language .

In Cottbus , the Lower Sorbian department of the association, the Maśica Serbska , was founded in Cottbus in 1880 , with Hendrich Jordan and Kito Šwjela playing a key role .

With donations from Sorbian citizens and foreign sponsors, Maćica built the Wendish House in Bautzen (inaugurated in 1904), which housed the museum , the archive and the library of the society as well as a picture gallery. Other Sorbian associations also used the Wendish House as a meeting and event venue.

From 1929 to 1932 the Lower Sorbian Maśica Serbska was involved in the organization of the Spreewald folk and costume festivals in Vetschau, which took place at the beginning of August . In 1937 the National Socialists banned all public activities of the Sorbian cultural association; In 1941 the association's assets were confiscated and Maćica Serbska was forcibly dissolved. The Wendish House was badly hit in the fighting for Bautzen in the spring of 1945 and burned down completely.

Immediately after the end of the war, the society continued its activities, particularly in the areas of linguistics and history. By order of the Soviet occupation forces, the Maćica Serbska had to give up its independence and integrate into the Domowina . With the establishment of the Institute for Sorbian Folk Research in 1951, Sorbian science was placed on a new institutional basis.

After the political change , Maćica Serbska was re-established in 1991 and joined Domowina, the umbrella association of Sorbian associations, a year later.

activities

The Maćica organizes conferences on Sorbian history and culture. Internationally, the association acts as a co-organizer of scientific conferences in neighboring Slavic countries. The Maćica also organizes popular science lectures in the localities of the Sorbian settlement area. The association also maintains and restores Sorbian monuments and also initiated the erection of new monuments on Sorbian cultural history.

The Sorbian Association maintains working contacts with the sister associations Matice slezská , Matice moravská , Matica slovenská , Matica srpska but also with German associations. Every year the annual general meetings - almost always on the Saturday after Easter - take place in Bautzen.

The association currently (2014) has 117 registered members who are based in Lusatia as well as in other areas of Germany, in Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, England, Finland and the Netherlands.

Significant members

literature

  • Měrćin Völkel: Trać dyrbi Serbstwo. Ludowe Nakładnistwo Domowina , Budyšin 1997, ISBN 3-7420-1709-8 (History of Maćica Serbska in Sorbian)
  • Siegmund Musiat: Sorbian / Wendish associations. 1716-1937. (= Writings of the Sorbian Institute . 26). Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 2001. ISBN 3-7420-1835-3
  • Catalog serbskeho wotdźěla knihownje Maćicy Serbskeje. (German catalog of the Wendish section of the library of the Maćica Serbska Society) , edited and arranged by Jacob Jatzwauk. Bautzen 1924.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Digital copies from the years 1848 to 1915
  2. ↑ Bomenius: Wendische costume parades in Vetschau - an exhibition in the Wendish church. NIEDERLAUSITZ aktuell, July 31, 2011, accessed on January 22, 2015 .