The database offers access to over 6 million dialectal linguistic evidences of the project "Dictionary of Bavarian Dialects" (German: Das Bayerische Wörterbuch) as image snippets, partly and forthgoing lemmatized.
The area covered by the Dictionary of Bavarian Dialects (Bayerisches Wörterbuch) comprises Upper Bavaria, Lower Bavaria, the Upper Palatinate and neighbouring regions of Bavarian Swabia, Middle Franconia and Upper Franconia. Over and above the vernaculars spoken today, Bavaria’s literary tradition since its beginnings in the 8th century is also taken into account.
Starting in 1913, language material was collected from all Bavarian-speaking regions in Bavaria. Questionnaires were sent out to local informants throughout Bavaria, and contemporary and historical literary sources were excerpted. Today the collection comprises around nine million dialect examples. With the exception of the “Wörterlisten” (word lists), which can be digitally searched and edited, this material consists of index cards, to which corresponding standard German or quasi-standard German keywords have been added, filed alphabetically (see link below for more information).
For detailed information, please see https://www.bwb.badw.de/en/the-project.html and https://www.bwb.badw.de/en/digital-platform.html
Digital copies of historical books and journals from the ULB Münster; collections from the region of Westphalia; Bilddigitalisate von Büchern und Zeitschriften aus dem historischen Bestand der ULB Münster sowie Sammlungen aus der Region Westfalen
The issues of the Polytechnic Journal are available as full texts and as digital copies. Zweifache Verfügbarkeit der Zeitschriftenbände: als Bilddigitalisate sowie als Volltexte
Documents on German history (e.g. German Empire; Weimar Republic; National Socialism; Federal Republic of Germany; German Democratic Republic); Dokumente zur deutschen Geschichte (z.B. Deutsches Kaiserreich; Weimarer Republik; Nationalsozialismus; Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Deutsche Demokratische Republik)
Angabe von Rechtschreibung, Bedeutungsübersicht, Synonymen, Aussprache (Audio-Datei), Herkunft, Grammatik, typischen Verbindungen (computergeneriert) sowie Bedeutungen, Beispielen und Wendungen (zusätzlich: Angabe der Wörter, die im Alphabet vorhergehen und nachfolgen)
German reference corpus. Ca 100 million words, 20th Century. Searchable online. Part of 'Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache des 20. Jahrhunderts' project; Korpus der BBAW; Grundlage des DWDS