Some Wendish families have handed down stories about how their family’s male members were required for war service in a decade of Wars between 1805 and 1814 and that canon-balls…

German and Wendish immigrants first settled at Westgarthtown near Melbourne in March 1850. Most had arrived in Australia the previous month aboard the Pribislaw, after a six-month voyage from Hamburg. They…

This article was written for Alfons Frencl to publish in Serbska Protyka 2011 and was therefore written with German readers in mind. The Wendish Heritage Society Australia celebrates its 25th…

My involvement with Pella’s Fuller pipe-organ began in 1969 when I assumed my duties as Lutheran pastor in the Rainbow parish, which included Hopetoun and Pella. Two items were then…

Who would have expected to read about a community of Wends and Germans at Cooktown in North Queensland in the 1800’s? Kevin Zwar knew about the Hope Vale Lutheran Mission…

A talk on “The Wends in Victoria” was presented by John Noack, President of the “Wendish Heritage Society Australia” on Saturday 8 May 2010 at 2pm at a meeting of…

The Pribislaw brought almost fifty Upper Lusatian Wends to Australia, most of whom settled in Victoria. These Wends included the Graff, Hempel, Hoehne, Kaiser, Pannach, Rosel, Schuster, Seiler, Stephan, Wuchatsch,…

On page 37 of his book “The World of the Ancient Slavs”, Zdenek Vana has described the tragedy and disappearance of the Slavs who occupied most of north-western Europe during…

A german shearer and unionist called Samuel Hoffmeister has entered the debate about the background to Andrew Barton (Banjo) Patterson’s poem “Waltzing Matilda”. Samuel was involved in the dispute between…

An article with the title “Windish Lutherans at Home and Abroad” published in The Lutheran Quarterly, the theological journal of the Lutheran Church of America and the American Lutheran Church…