2025-08-28 00:00:00 Herrnhut is the origin of the Evangelical Brethren Church. Protestant religious refugees from Moravia founded the place a good 300 years ago. The missing “d” in the name of the community “Brotherhood” is due to the language of the time. Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700–1760) made the land available to the religious refugees for settlement in Upper Lusatia. On June 17, 1722, the carpenter Christian David felled the first tree to build the new place under the “Mr. Hat”. As the Brethren Unity spread worldwide, missionaries from Upper Lusatia carried a blueprint for new settlements to other countries. One of them, Christiansfeld in Denmark, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015.