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2 unusual facts about Herrnhut


Carl Christoffer Gjörwell Sr.

Despite changing public tastes, various twists of fate and whichever wandering turns his life took, he bore all reverses with stoic calm, happy in his family, his employment and his religious life in the prayer halls of the Moravian Herrnhut brethren.

Herrnhut

The municipality borders on, among other municipalities, Oderwitz.


David Zeisberger

Zeisberger was born in Zauchtenthal, Moravia (present day Suchdol nad Odrou in the Czech Republic) and moved with his family to the newly established Moravian Christian community of Herrnhut, on the estate of Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf in the German Electorate of Saxony in 1727.

German North Polar Expedition

In June 1870, the crew got to the coast by boat and reached the Moravian Herrnhut mission at Friedrichsthal (modern Narsaq Kujalleq) near Cape Farewell, from where they got back to Germany on a Danish ship.

Nancowry Island

The Moravian Brethren of Herrnhut attempted a mission here in the late 1700s in conjunction with the Danish Crown.

New Herrnhut

Old Nuuk, now the capital of Greenland, originally established as a Moravian mission known as Neu-Herrnhut or Nye-Hernhut


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