[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Oberland

[Richard Benert]

Sorry, folks.  I've got another question.

On Jutta Dennerlein's website, Upstream Vistula, there is a chronicle of 
Schlonsk written by a fellow name Mielke.  In it he refers to thousands of 
Germans sent to Siberia in 1914 from an area he refers to as "Oberland". 
It's a pretty vague term, and might mean, as Jutta suggests to me, merely an 
area at a higher elevation.  But I still wonder if perhaps the people around 
Schlonsk (located between Thorn and Wloclawek) may have had a more specific 
region in mind when they said, "Oberland".  Any ideas?

Dick B.