Lindenwood Community Center

Less than a mile from the historic site — home to four organizations keeping Freistadt's Pomeranian heritage alive.

The center & the Freistadt Heritage Foundation

The Lindenwood Community Center sits less than one mile from the Trinity-Freistadt Historical Site. Since 1989 it has been run by volunteers of the Freistadt Heritage Foundation, the non-profit parent organization of the four groups that call the center home. The center is not part of the historical society, but its member organizations share our purpose: preserving the heritage of Wisconsin's first German settlement.

The center runs entirely on donations, rent from its sister groups, and an annual benefit held each April.

The Lindenwood School Community Center — a brick schoolhouse addition joined to the original clapboard school — under a clear blue sky — The former Lindenwood School, now the community center.

The Lindenwood School Community Center sign, with the emblems of the Alte Kameraden, Pommerscher Verein Freistadt, Pommersche Tanzdeel Freistadt, and Lindenwood 4-H Club, below a wooden Lindenwood 4-H sign — The center's sign carries the emblems of all four groups that call Lindenwood home.

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The groups at Lindenwood

The hand-painted wooden Lindenwood 4-H sign with the four-leaf-clover 4-H emblem, hanging at the community center

Lindenwood 4-H Club

The oldest of the four organizations has the youngest members. The club began in 1929 and still meets on the first Monday of the month.

Lindenwood 4-H Club on Facebook

Couples in Pomeranian folk dress dancing on an outdoor stage at Pommerntag, the festival tent and crowd behind them

Pommerscher Verein Freistadt

Devoted to preserving Pomeranian culture and history, the Verein was founded in 1978 to preserve our Pomeranian heritage through the study of its history, genealogy, culture, and language.

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Pommerntag

Pomeranian Day — the largest ethnic festival sponsored by the Pommerscher Verein Freistadt, held annually on the last Sunday in June.

Pommerntag on Facebook

Freistadt Alte Kameraden Band

This brass band has been making music at home and abroad since 1943, carrying on a band tradition in Freistadt that dates to 1845. It has played for Presidents and on the National Mall.

The full Pommersche Tanzdeel Freistadt troupe, from young children to adults, in Pomeranian folk costume on the schoolhouse steps

Pommersche Tanzdeel Freistadt & Pommersche Späldeel

The Tanzdeel is an ethnic dance troupe dedicated to promoting the folk dances of Pomerania, with four groups spanning ages 4 through adult. The Späldeel is its companion group of singers and musicians specializing in Pomeranian folk music. Both perform at events throughout the year in Wisconsin, regionally, and beyond.

These neighbors show up for each other: when fire took our Mueller Shed in 2023, the Alte Kameraden Band helped restore electric power to the historic grounds. Read the story on the Mueller Shed page, or see the band tradition's place in the Freistadt timeline.