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Architecture of Modernism in Eastern Europe
Research into the architectural history of modernism in Eastern Europe is a long-term art historical project of the BKGE, the core of which is the cooperation with the Architekturmuseum in Breslau/Muzeum Architektury we Wrocławiu (Wroclaw Museum of Architecture). Another focus is on translations of...
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Collection of the Martin Opitz Library
The Martin Opitz Library is the central library for German culture and history in Eastern Europe. It collects literature from all areas of East-Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The main focus of the collections is on the regions that today form western Poland and the Kaliningrad region –...
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Collections and holdings of the Institute for German Culture and History in Southeastern Europe (IKGS)
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Complete collection of research materials of the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association
The Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe - Institute of the Leibniz Association is home to an extensive and diverse range of collections relating to East Central Europe, including a library with a music and press collection together with an image archive and a document and...
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Danube Swabian Museum
Migration has always been an important part of European history and continues to be an issue of great significance today. The Danube Swabians are a German minority in Eastern Europe, whose ancestors emigrated to Hungary in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Danube Swabian Museum in Ulm is not only...
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Farewell after 500 years
A document in the Silesian Museum in Görlitz testifies to the acquisition of the village of Gleinitz by the brothers Nikolaus, Georg and Ladislaus von Niebelschütz in 1446. It was only by chance that the descendent of the Niebelschütz family, Harald von Niebelschütz, then 15 years old, saved the document in 1945 and donated it to the museum in 2017.
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Gdansk in aerial photographs in the interwar years
In impressive photographs, the extensive aerial photo exhibition documents the Hanseatic city of Gdansk before the destruction of the Second World War.
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Geschichte in Bewegung erleben
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Holdings and collections of the Danube Swabian Museum
From a refugee’s suitcase to a popcorn maker, from the jacket of a forced laborer to a perennial Christmas tree: the holdings of the Danube Swabian Museum convey Danube-Swabian culture and history in a multifarious and eclectic way. An unexpected and special feature of the collection is that many...
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Institute for German Culture and History in South-Eastern Europe
Europe – a region that is more than the sum of its parts. Migration and the constant exchange between its inhabitants have been and still are of utmost importance to the creation of a European relationship history. The Institute for German Culture and History in South-Eastern Europe (IKGS) is...
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Klosterdämmerung ("The Twilight of the Monastery") – Part I
In the Kingdom of Prussia, the abolition of all monasteries in 1810 meant a decisive historical turning point. The first part of the exhibition project "Klosterdämmerung" ("The Twilight of the Monastery") shows the historical development of the seven Silesian Cistercian monasteries from the Middle...
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Klosterdämmerung ("The Twilight of the Monastery") – Part II (Leubus)
In the Kingdom of Prussia, the abolition of all monasteries in 1810 meant a decisive historical turning point. The second part of the exhibition project "Klosterdämmerung" ("The Twilight of the Monastery") shows the historical development of the oldest of the seven Silesian Cistercian monasteries...
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Klosterdämmerung ("The Twilight of the Monastery") – Part III (Kamieniec Ząbkowicki)
In the Kingdom of Prussia, the abolition of all monasteries in 1810 meant a decisive historical turning point. The third part of the exhibition project "Klosterdämmerung" ("The Twilight of the Monastery") shows the historical development of the municipality and the Cistercian Abbey in Kamieniec...
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Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO)
The Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) focuses its research on the region between the Baltic, Black and Adriatic Sea. From Late Antiquity until the present, we examine peculiarities, transformations and interrelationships in an ever-more global world. Fundamental...
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Library catalog (OPAC) of the Institute for German Culture and History in Southeastern Europe (IKGS)
In the library catalog of the Institute of German Culture and History in Southeastern Europe you can search in a stock of more than 20,000 books, 1,000 journals and hundreds of DVDs, CDs and much more.
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Longing for the Faraway in the People's Republic of Poland
100 pictures by an important German-Polish photographer. For many decades, Stefan Arczyński documented rural and urban life in post-war Poland.
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Martin Opitz Library
The Martin Opitz Library (MOB) is the central library for German culture and history in Eastern Europe. It collects literature from all areas of East-Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The main focus of the collections is on the regions that today form western Poland and the Kaliningrad...
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Online search aid of the Document Collection at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe
The online search aid of the Document Collection (DSHI) at the Marburg Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe is the starting point for research in the holdings of the most important archive on the history of the Baltic states of Estonia and Latvia in the German-speaking...
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Schlesien im Spiegel der Geschichte ("Silesia in the mirror of history")
Silesia: a varied landscape and a heterogeneous society with a rich culture and history. HAUS SCHLESIEN's interactive online portal "Schlesien im Spiegel der Geschichte" ("Silesia in the Mirror of History") invites you on a rich journey of discovery. Here you can follow traces of Silesian culture,...
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Schlesische Grabkunst ("Funerary Art")
A HAUS SCHLESIEN exhibition in the baroque monastery complex in Leubus, Lower Silesia, is dedicated to special places of remembrance. It presents a selection of important churches and their funerary monuments in Silesia and aims to encourage visitors to make their own excursions to these special...
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