English Translation

3a of many German-Turkish islands, including those in the Waag valley, has then postponed the already far advanced integration of Slovakia or, more precisely, of the northern Hungarian mountain foothills into the western cultural and life circle for a long time. If the German folkdom had held itself in the waag valley then a completely different cultural-spatial situation would have arisen for Moravia. In view of the population geography, it is therefore hardly possible to call Moravia the middle of Central Europe at Plaß. The intensive German settlement then placed Moravia in quite a few national fronts, it became the bridge between the Füdösterischen areas of the Silesian-East-Central German settlement area and the north-eastern outpost of the Central Bavarian tribe. Both moved close to each other in the Flavian region of Mäb=rens, the entire middle Moravia became the intersection area of the two tribal groups. The process becomes much more blurred, because especially at the Bohemian-Mauritian height North Bavaria are also sunk and in the Schönhengstgau Dstfranken. It is not a matter of simply bringing the fud-nörd= of interlocking into a middle Bavarian-Slesian formula. If Moravia is today called the country of the German People's Islands, this is far more true for the Middle Ages. Like a regular nest, the German town foundations lay over the whole country and created that peculiar state that there were no more closed flat landscapes at all. For the German cities were not to be thought away from economic and cultural as well as legal life and their German bourgeoisie thus formed an integral part of the construction of the Slavic tribal territories, which had no citizenship of their own, which could not be taken away from the economy and the state, but only gained it through repopulation. They were not yet "people" in their own sense. In addition to the cities, there were numerous German villages and village groups, which even today are hardly completely received. Thus, the German bridge through the June Moravian had before that much more and stronger pillars. It is better, one speaks of two bridges. One went over the Bohemian-Mauritian height, its strong middle section was and is the Iglau German Island. The second, which is appropriately referred to as Middle Moravian, shows essentially at the same time the north impact of the Central Bavarian settlers, although on the bridge naturally also Northern, from the Silesian tribal area Coming to the south has moved and can be found today on the north edge of the Füdmährisches Deutschtumgebiet appearances of Silesian origin in dialect and folk property. The South Pillars of the Central Moravian Bridge form the German People's Islands of Brno and those of Wischau, which were both considerably larger in the Middle Ages. There is no doubt that these German-Turkish islands belong to the Central Bavarian tribal area. From German-Prussia north of Wiau is an orphan's book of the 16th century. In the early 20th century, Ernst Schwarz came to us with his 4