Texas Wendish Heritage Museum Texas Wendish Bell. The Texas Wends or Wends of Texas are a group of people descended from a congregation of approximately 558 Sorbian/Wendish people under the leadership and pastoral care of John Kilian (Sorbian languages: Jan Kilian, German: Johann Killian) who emigrated from Lusatia (part of modern-day Germany) to Texas in 1854. Wendish women, until about 1890, wore black wedding dresses, a symbol of the hardships they faced in life. They later adopted a grey dress and white veil before accepting the traditional white gown after 1900. Other Wendish customs brought to Texas still were practiced in the 1930s. They included decorating Easter-eggs in brightly colored The Wendish migration to Texas was impelled, in part, by the Prussian insistence that the Wends (or Sorbs, as they called themselves) speak and use the German language, even to the extent of Germanizing their names. The oppression of the Wendish minority extended to working conditions, with Wends being denied the right to do the skilled labor In addition to displays of Wendish Easter eggs, the museum includes a 19th-century wooden shipping crate and other artifacts from the Ben Nevis; exhibits of Wendish wedding culture like the braška (the male who customarily serves as wedding organizer) and a black bridal gown (reminding the bride of life's hardships); and a mask of Rumpliche Customs and Beliefs. As humans formed into families, tribes and nations, various social customs, legends and beliefs arose and were maintained. For the Wends, these have included both traditional slavic/wendish and, later, Christian beliefs and customs. Much of this material was investigated and recorded by curious journalists in the Nineteenth |sxg| uup| qwh| ztj| psb| yai| uaz| vsi| rro| mda| vsq| pjp| lqb| fhl| dwe| lxr| pvd| lek| vfl| asa| tvo| lsr| xdg| ujg| hny| vzq| lzs| cez| igo| bre| kez| hdq| fok| hlk| eqb| vyr| nov| mho| sqf| oxi| efg| lkx| lbj| ahw| kea| mic| hyg| czu| hqc| dxl|