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Localnauts · Rixdorf
Sources
Every fact in our game rests on a source. Here we disclose where our knowledge of the history of Bohemian Rixdorf comes from.
Why this page? For us, media literacy means not just talking but showing. What we tell in the game can be checked — here are the sources behind it. Best read once you have already played Rixdorf.
Bohemian Village & local history
- FACETTEN Magazine Neukölln — From Böhmisch-Rothwasser to Böhmisch-Rixdorf (2012)
- Wikipedia — Böhmisch-Rixdorf (Bohemian Rixdorf)
- Moravian Church Berlin — How did Böhmisch-Rixdorf come about?
- Neukölln district office (Berlin.de) — Bohemian Village
- Verein für die Geschichte Berlins — Rixdorf (first mention 1360, Order of St John)
- Neukölln im Netz — Monuments in Rixdorf / Bohemian Village
- Museum im Böhmischen Dorf (Kirchgasse 5)
- Archiv im Böhmischen Dorf e.V. (Bohemian Village Archive)
- Wikipedia — Böhmischer Gottesacker Rixdorf (Bohemian graveyard; founded 1751; 136 deaths 1737–1751)
- Volksbund — Berlin-Neukölln, Bohemian cemeteries I–III
Monument & squares
Church, cup symbol & tower balls
- Wikipedia — Bethlehemskirche (Berlin-Neukölln)
- Wikipedia — Laienkelch (communion in both kinds)
- OME-Lexikon, Uni Oldenburg — Utraquists (cup movement / Hussites)
- SRF Kultur — tower balls / researcher Beat Kümin (2024)
- Wikipedia — Turmkugel (tower ball)
- Wikipedia — Jan Hus (Konstanz 1415)
- luther2017.de — Jan Hus: forerunner of the Reformation
Crafts: forge, weaving & chimney sweeping
Gardens: orchard meadow & Comenius Garden
Moravian Church & Comenius
Everyday life: water, mills & community
- Wikipedia — Forms of Berlin street pumps (Lauchhammer type)
- AWO Kreisverband Südost — youth club Die Scheune
- kms-sonne.de — Of mills, Hohenzollerns and Karl Marx (King Friedrich Wilhelm I brought the miller Bading to Rixdorf to grind the Bohemians' grain; mills on the Rollberge)
- Neukölln im Netz — Rollbergviertel (up to 16 windmills on the Rollberge; wind not water)
MeinStein mosaic & Alfred-Scholz-Platz
On site in Rixdorf
- Information boards, display cases and the museum at the places themselves — among them the Bohemian graveyard (Karl-Marx-Platz), the Rixdorf Forge, the Moravian Church and the Museum im Böhmischen Dorf.