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Bilingual place initial signposts and signposts show the guest that once another language was resident here: Sorbian (Wendish). Lübben is called that way: Lubin or Burg: Borkowy.

In the Thirty Years' War (1618 to 1648) the half of the Sorbian population was lost. Of course a considerable part of the Sorbian shrank language area through this. With the industrialization after 1871 the Sorbian language as a mother language disappeared. Since schools were taught mainly in German, the majority of the sorbish peoples got bilingual.

But the language has survived the "Pan-German empire" and the "DDR". Only few still dominate the Sorbian. So only the old are able to talk perfect sorbian and do it too.

Brandenburg (sorbian/wendish people law Standard Wire Gauge) of July 7th, 1994 is in the law called in the section 8 language it to the arranging of the rights of the sorbish peoples (wendish peoples) in the country: The Sorbian language has to be guessed and promoted, particularly the low Sorbian. The use of the Sorbian language is free.

Takes place before the Shrovetide. The village youth walks in costumes from house to house on this day and gives a serenade on every court. For this they get eggs, bacon or money. In the evening eggs and bacon are consumed in a common round. Nowadays outfits are no set to limits the highly imaginative. The Zamper figures shall ban the winter and receive the fertile time the spring.

→ see Shrovetide

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