Joseph S. Reiter shares the story of his Father from Kleinbetschkerek in Romania to the United States, & the United German Hungarians.
Tag: Banat Swabians
Tradition & the 2023 Kirchweihfest, by Michael Fricker
On Sunday, November 26, we gathered at the Phoenix Sport Club, members, friends, the Cultural Group, four generations of German-Hungarians. And the Kirchweihfest is our most visible and real example of tradition in action. The fact that it is the most beautiful makes it what I like to all the most beautiful important day of our club calendar.
“BUWE WAS HA’MER HEIT?” by Emily Fricker in 2015
Read Emily Fricker's 2015 writing on the Sport Club Kirchweih of the 1950s!
About “Mei Rosmarein,” by Emily Fricker in 2014
Read Emily Fricker's 2014 writing on the Rosmarein & the Kirchweih!
The Philadelphia “Kerweihs,” by Emily Fricker in 2012
Read Emily Fricker's 2012 history of the Philadelphia "Kerweihs."
The “German-Hungarians” & the Kirchweih, by Emily Fricker in 2011
Read Emily Fricker's 2011 writing on the Kirchweih!
“Mutti, When Are We Ordering the Wurst?”, by Werner Fricker Jr.
Werner Fricker Jr. tells the tale of our favorite Hungarian Smoked sausage. Is this story the definitive end of that tale? Who knows, after all everything has an end but the wurst has two.
Behind Our Name: Part V, by Michael Fricker
In part IV, we discussed the various buildings that our club has called home and the names we gave them. Now this month we will finally tell the story of how our club went from the Banater Männerchor to the United German Hungarians of Philadelphia and Vicinity.