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From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008 | Copyright information

Herrnhut , town, Saxony, SE Germany. It was founded (1722) by Graf von Zinzendorf as a colony of Moravian Brethren (see Moravian Church ), and is today a Moravian center with archives, a publishing house, and a museum.

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