Sønderjylland-Schleswig Kolonial

The page Sønderjylland-Schleswig Colonial is a joint project of the Flensburg Maritime Museum, Museum Sønderjylland – Kulturhistorie Aabenraa and the Schleswig Collection of the Danish Central Library Flensburg. The aim of the project is to collect and communicate the colonial references of the region between Eider and Königsau.

a book cover. most of the cover is beige. at the top right corner a part of a painting can be seen where an old white man wearing a hat out of ananas and bananas is walking next to a black person which looks angry. At the bottom left corner a painting of a torso of a black person in front of a palm can be seen. In the middle of the cover the titel of the book "Sønderjylland-Schleswig Kolonial" is written.

Among other things, the website contains a regional colonial atlas, which can be used to rediscover the historical and contemporary traces of colonialism and to list places of remembrance.

Also, in 2018, the anthology “Sønderjylland-Schleswig Kolonial” by Marco L. Petersen was published, which contains almost 500 pages dedicated to the search for colonial references in the German-Danish border region.

Photo: Cover of the anthology