Zipser
The Zipser (Hungarian cipszer , Romanian țipțeri ) are a German-speaking population group in the northern Romanian district of Maramureș as well as in parts of southwest Bukovina (today: district Suceava ) and Slovakia (see Zipserdeutsch ).
history
The name "Zipser" comes from immigrants from the Spiš (Hungarian: Szepesség , Slovak: Spiš ) (then Hungary , now Slovakia ). The remnants of the German-speaking population that are still present today are mainly composed of later immigrants from the southern German and, above all, Upper Austrian language areas. The history of the German-speaking Zipser can be traced back to the 13th century.
The Spiš developed a lively narrative culture which essentially constituted their society during the large-scale settlement movements. Remnants of this orally passed on historical treasure can still be found today in the remaining "Mära and Kasska" in northern Romania.
The political representation of the Zipser and the other German-speaking groups in today's Romania is the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (DFDR). A representative of the German-language literature of Eastern Europe is the author and Zipser Gerhard Cerny , whose parents emigrated from today's Slovakia to Romania in the 19th century.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ August Ludwig von Schlözer : Critical collections on the history of the Germans in Transylvania . Göttingen 1795, pp. 688-695.
- ↑ K. Julius Schröer: Attempt to represent the German dialects of the Hungarian mountainous region with language samples and explanations . Vienna 1864 ( full text ).