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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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Herrnhut. A village some 40 miles east of Dresden, built and settled in 1722 by a group of Moravian Brethren on a site presented by N. L. von Zinzendorf.

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