German-Pennsylvanian Archive

It was founded in 1993 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein by Michael Werner, publisher of the Pennsylvania German newspaper Hiwwe wie Driwwe.

The archive is a member of the German-Pennsylvanian Association (Deutsch-Pennsylvanischer Arbeitskreis e.V.)

[1] In 2017, the German-Pennsylvanian Archive was donated to the "Mennonite Research Center" (Mennonitische Forschungsstelle) at Weierhof, Palatinate (Germany).

Actually, the archive consists of about 1,500 books and more than 16,000 texts of Pennsylvania German prose and poetry.

Additionally, the archive holds a collection of about 800 Pennsylvania German groundhog lodge stories.