Sorbian Museum
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The Sorbian Museum, Upper Sorbian: Serbski muzej, German: Sorbisches Museum, is hosted in the salthouse of the Ortenburg, Bautzen. It houses approximately 35,000 inventarized objects, making it the mo
The former salthouse of Ortenburg Castle, Bautzen, accommodates the Sorbian museum
Painted cupboard from of the collection of the museum
Sorbs
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Sorbs, also known as Lusatian Serbs, is an indigenous West Slavic ethnic group predominantly inhabiting the parts of Lusatia located in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg. Sorbs traditionally
Traditional female costume of Lower Lusatia (Spreewald)
The Chronicle of Fredegar mentions a Latin: Deruanus dux gente surbiorum, que ex genere Sclauinoru erant, lit. 'Dervan, Duke of the people of the Surbs, who were of the race of the Sclavs'
7th-century Sorbian Duchy of Dervan
The reconstructed Lusatian gord (fortification) of Raduš (Raddusch), near Vetschau, in Lower Lusatia