Researching Die Wendenlande

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Hello,list members,

  This is the first time to post to this list. I am hoping to find someone
also researching this Wendenlande area.
I have a letter written by
the son of my great-uncle from the Neumark area of East Brandenburg.
   In the son's letter, based on his translations, in 1964, he wrote:
"The Klemke name carries the -ke suffix which is a Westphalian suffix from
the land of Wends and Altmark."

I have had numerous information on the Wends (Sorbs) etc. and Hans
Bahlow's book on German surnames on pg 298 lists it as an E. German -Slavic
variation of "Klemens or Clemens" etc.

But, now, I believe that "the land of Wends" means "die
Wendenlande" area in this Sachsen-Anhalt , Altmark area between the Elbe and
the Oder Rivers.

From the Neumark-L, I see a map from 1749 of this whole area, including over
to Poland and up to Pommern and the Ueckermark, etc.
http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/BRG/neumark/

click on "bilder" to see the map of
"Landkarte Brandenburg von 1749"

Die alte Mark is listed as AM

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Hallo,

There are two different terms. First, it's meant to be the "middle-age"
area of the "west-slavic" people, offen called "Wenden". That is the
area between rivers Elbe and Saale (of course a lot of them lived in the
west of this two rivers too) and the rivers Oder/Bobr�. Or it's meant to
be the district of "WENDLAND", is situated in the east of
"NIEDERSACHSEN". The name Wendland comes from the former inhabitants.
Some of them had spoken a "wendisch" dialect up to 17th century.

Regards Andrei

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We have a group of immigrants who came to Texas in 1854 and settled
central Texas. They call themselves Wends. Take a look at the Handbook
of Texas Online.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/search.new.html
Enter Wends in the search box and you will find a short history of them.
They still maintain their museum and still host a festival every year.
Patsy Hand

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