Walddeutsche

• Walddeutsche
• Głuchoniemcy

The location of the two recognizable language islands around Łańcut and Krosno of the Forest Germans in the 16th century relative to the Holy Roman Empire (yellow)
Languages
Silesian German
Religion
Roman Catholicism, Protestantism

Walddeutsche (lit. "Forest Germans" or Taubdeutsche – "Deaf Germans"; Polish: Głuchoniemcy – "deaf Germans") was the name for a group of German-speaking people, originally used in the 16th century for two language islands around Łańcut and Krosno, in southeastern Poland. Both of them were fully polonised before the 18th century, the term, however, survived up to the early 20th century as the designation na Głuchoniemcach, broadly and vaguely referring to the territory of present-day Sanockie Pits, which has seen a partial German settlement since the 14th century, mostly Slavicised long before the term was coined.