Editing Sorbs (section)

=== Religion ===
[[File:Nowy zakoń Michał Frencel.jpg|thumb|Sorbian translation of the New Testament by {{ill|Michał Frencel|dsb|v=sup}}, 1717]]
Most current speakers of Upper-Sorbian are part of the Catholic denomination. Originally, the majority of Sorbs were Lutheran Protestants, and this was still the case going into the 20th Century (with a Protestant population of 86.9% recorded in 1900).<ref>According to the 1900 Census. See Ernst Tschernik: ''Die Entwicklung der Sorbischen Bevölkerung''. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1954, P. 34.</ref> Only the Sorbs of the Kamenz area – predominantly settled on the expansive former site of the {{ill|Saint Marienstern Monastery|de|Kloster St. Marienstern|v=sup}} in [[Panschwitz-Kuckau]] – veered from the norm, with a Catholic population of 88.4%. Otherwise, the proportion of Catholics remained under 1% throughout the region of Lower Lusatia. Due to the rapid decline in language and cultural identity amongst the Protestant Sorbs – particularly during the years of the [[East Germany|GDR]] – the denominational make-up of the Sorbian-speaking population of the region has now been reversed.