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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 391 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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town of See also:Germany, in the See also:kingdom of See also:Saxony, 18 m. S.E. of See also:Bautzen, and situated on the LSbau-See also:Zittau See also:rail-way. Pop. 120o. It is chiefly known as the See also:principal seat of the Moravian or Bohemian brotherhood, the members of which1,re called Herrnhuter. A See also:colony of these See also:people, fleeing from persecution in See also:Moravia, settled at Herrnhut in 1722 on a site presented by See also:Count See also:Zinzendorf. The buildings of the society include a See also:church, a school and houses for the brethren, the sisters and the widowed ,of both sexes, while it possesses an ethnographical museum and other collections of See also:interest. The town is remarkable for its ordered, See also:regular See also:life and its scrupulous cleanliness. See also:Linen, See also:paper (to varieties of which Herrnhut gives its name), See also:tobacco and various See also:minor articles are manufactured. The Hutberg, at the See also:foot of which the town lies, commands a pleasant view. Berthelsdorf, a See also:village about a mile distant, has been the seat of the directorate of the community since about 1789.

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