Deutsch-Amerikanische Schützengesellschaft
![Cultural Site: Important contributors to the community's sense of place and built environment. Historical, art, music, legendary, non-institutional resources, monuments, organizations and places, even temporary projects may be included. Cultural Site](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/cultural.gif)
![Cultural Performance: Cultural presentations before an audience, usually in a theatrical setting including plays, dance, concerts, etc. May include street theater, puppeteers, traditional theater, mixed media, etc. Cultural Performance](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/cultural_performance.gif)
![Historical Feature: Institution, monument or unmarked historical area with special significance to the community's sense of place and environment. Historical Feature](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/historical_feature.gif)
![Community Center: Place where clubs, meetings and social gatherings involving the whole community are held. May be a formalized community center, or one established though common use. Community Center](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/community_center.gif)
Overview
Many German immigrants were high-minded in the extreme, almost obsessed by issues of education, culture, and socialist reform, sports and drinking and to re-creating a sense of the Heimatland, the homeland. marksmanship in particular, a very German tradition, combined these interests.
Other clubs were purely social; they brought together people from the same region, town, or neighborhood, giving them opportunities to speak their local dialect, to gossip, and to exchange news form home. The Plattdeutsche Volksfest Verein, an umbrella organizatino of close to a hundred clubs, was formed just for those purposes. It sprimary activity was the yearly Voksfest, call it a week-long public merrymaking, at which as many as 150,000 attendees happily celebrated their origins at Jones' Wood.
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- Germany
- Cluj-NapocaRomania
- LancySwitzerland
- United Kingdom
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- Brazil
- United States
- SedonaUnited States
- Cluj NapocaRomania
- Brazil
- EspooFinland
- AccokeekUnited States
- New YorkUnited States
- United States
- Cleveland HeightsUnited States
- OcracokeUnited States
- Jersey CityUnited States
- Romania
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- Hong Kong S.A.R., China
- AtlanticUnited States
- New York, NY
- RichmondUnited States
- San FranciscoUnited States
- New YorkUnited States
Multimedia
German Steuben Parade in New York
The German Steuben Parade is an annual parade held in various cities in the United States. The New York Parade is held every third Saturday in September. It was founded in 1957 by German-American immigrants, who wanted to keep the traditions of their Homeland alive.
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