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SummaryHad it not been for the last decades, one would say today that humans have been related to each other, in-laws-in-law, and intertwined through confused ownership relationships in many different ways for generations. Here, where the names of the villages sound as if a speech-loving hermit had invented them and randomly thrown them. Tiesmesland, Privelack, Kolpant, Landsatz, Brandstrande, Jasebeck, are the names of the villages along the Elbe. Wendland is the name of the area to the west, Mecklenburg to the east. The common language is Low German. Before the last great war made the river the insurmountable border between two very different worlds, the Elbe was the common lifeline. A piece of German/German reality 1991.
