Bavaria's Dialects Online (BDO) is the digital language information system of the three projects "Bavarian Dictionary", "Franconian Dictionary", and "Dialectological Information System of Bavarian Swabia". The database combines the research results of dialect research and presents dictionary articles as well as research data in a freely accessible online tool.
BDO is not only aimed at scholars, but also at the lay public interested in the language. Here, the vocabulary of all Bavarian dialects is collected in one place and made accessible. The system shows the richness of the dialects of Bavaria in combination. With the new database, one will be able to compare the dialect vocabulary of Old Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia. Authentic dialect evidence is used to illustrate the dialect words in their variety of meanings and regional distribution, as well as to show their use in idioms, proverbs, and much more. BDO allows a whole new look at the vocabulary of the dialects of all parts of the state of Bavaria.
Die vorliegende Studie befasst sich schwerpunktmäßig mit den Beziehungen zwischen Mähren und Süddeutschland im Frühmittelalter. Von den vielen verschiedenartigen gesellschaftlichen Phänomenen, auf die sich die gegenseitigen Kontakte auswirkten, sei näher diskutiert der Wandel im Bestattungsritus. Diese historischen Prozesse kann man im archäologischen Fundgut unter anderem mit der Verbreitung von spätmerowingischen Bommelohrringen und Pressblechfibeln in Verbindung bringen. Die Anfänge dieser Übermittlung gehen tief in das 8. Jahrhundert zurück, als in Mähren die ersten Körpergräber aufkamen. In ihnen waren auch diejenigen Frauen beigesetzt, die alemannischen und bajuwarischen Schmuck trugen. and The study addresses the relationships between Moravia and south Germany in the Early Middle Ages. Among the many social phenomena influenced by mutual contacts, the work in particular discusses the change in the burial ritual. Among other things, this social process can also be connected with the spread of Late Merovingian earrings with spherical pendants and disc brooches. The beginnings of cultural influence stretches back far into the 8th century, when the first inhumation graves appear in Moravia. The women that were also buried in these graves wore Alemanni and Bavarian ornaments.
The article deals with corruption in Bavaria and Prussia around
1800. In accordance with recent research, the author assumes corruption as a socially constructed phenomenon that is subjected to a historical change. In this article, he tries to show how a new notion of corruption appeared in public, became a weapon in political conflicts and influenced the legal and administrative reforms in both German monarchies. The author concludes
that corruption charges might be seen as a driving force behind the legal reforms: The reformers in both countries tried to delegitimise the old regime by corruption charges and, thus, cleared the way for bureaucratic reforms.This delegitimation can be observed in public debates, in internal discussions and in the new laws themselves.
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
The graves of the Merovingian period in Central Europe show typical grave inventories which allow us to determine the sex (and not only the gender) of the buried persons with high accuracy. In the year 2000 a skeleton of the Alamannic cemetery of Niederstotzingen (Germany), which was equipped with weapons as a male component of the grave goods, was identified as female by DNA-analysis. This surprising result gave us a reason to investigate some skeletons of the Bavarian region, which seemed to be female by the morphology of the bones but also had weapons. We found no further ‘female warriors’, and recent investigations of the skeleton from Niederstotzingen carried out by other scholars have shown that it also belongs to a man. So we have no archaeological traces of women in the Early Middle Ages who filled the role as a warrior in life. This is also the case in view of the written sources. Surprisingly, in our Bavarian sample we found two persons with a male genotyp and beads from a necklace. These finds have to be interpreted with caution and we cannot be sure to find a proof of ‘cross-dressing’ in the Merovingian period. and Výbava hrobů merovejského období ve střední Evropě se vyznačuje charakteristickou kombinací předmětů, umožňující s vysokou pravděpodobností určit biologické pohlaví zesnulého. Zbraněmi vybavený jedinec z alemanského pohřebiště v Niederstotzingen byl v roce 2000 pomocí DNA analýzy určen jako žena. Tento překvapivý výsledek zadal podnět k prozkoumání několika hrobů z bavorské sídelní oblasti, které sice obsahovaly zbraně, kde ale morfologie koster naznačovala ženské pohlaví. Další bojovnice ovšem nalezeny nebyly a nové rozbory niederstotzingenského hrobu mezitím prokázaly, že i tam se jednalo o muže. Z raného středověku tedy ve zkoumané oblasti neznáme nálezy, u nichž by existovalo podezření, že se jedná o pohřby bojovnic, a ani v písemných pramenech pro tento jev nenalézáme oporu. Naopak jsme ale právě v Bavorsku identifikovali dvě kostry s mužskou DNA, které měly na krku korálkové náhrdelníky. Takové nálezy nutno posuzovat obezřetně, v žádném případě ale nejde o archeologický doklad „crossdressingu“ v merovejském období.
Rubus silvae-bohemicae is described as a new regional apomictic species belonging to the subgen. Rubus sect. Rubus ser. Micantes Sudre. It is a nemophilous bramble occurring in south-western and southern Bohemia (Czech Republic) and adjacent parts of Bavaria (Germany). It differs from the somewhat similar species, R. indusiatus Focke, by having no stellate hairs on the undersides of the leaves and a lower number of shorter stalked glands and lower number of prickles on first-year stems. An illustration of the new species (including a photograph of the type specimen), a list of localities and a distribution map are presented.
The database currently contains about 1 million dialectal linguistic evidences of the project "The Franconian Dictionary" (German: Das Fränkische Wörterbuch), each of which lemmatized, annotated, and linked to the original questionnaire. The database is work in progress, so there will be more data available regularly.
The Franconian Dictionary was initiated by the Munich office of the Bavarian Dictionary project, sending questionnaires for a dialect survey in Franconia. In the wake of this survey an office in Erlangen was established in 1933 (see link below for more information).
During the course of 90 years thousands of volunteers helped to compile a considerable collection of vernacular examples of usage, drawn from the Bavarian districts of Upper, Middle and Lower Frankonia. For the most part they represent the East Franconian dialect, to the lesser extent also Rhine-Franconian, Swabian and North-Bavarian vernaculars. Between 2007 and 2008 a small selection of the research results was published in three editions of one printed volume by Eberhard Wagner and Alfred Klepsch: “Handwörterbuch von Bayerisch-Franken” (see link below for more information).
Since 2012 the Franconian Dictionary, a project of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, has been entrusted to the Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen and Nuremberg (FAU). The project is supervised by Prof. Dr. Mechthild Habermann, Chair of the Faculty of German Linguistics at the FAU.
For detailed information, please see http://www.wbf.badw.de/en/the-project.html and http://www.wbf.badw.de/en/wbf-digital.html