Count Zinzendorf - The Memorial Stone Near Herrnhut

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Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf

The Memorial Stone Near Herrnhut

Near to Herrnhut is a Denkstein, a memorial stone. The church of the Ancient Unity of the Brethren (Unitas Fratrum) was revived in the early 1700s when some persecuted brothers secretly left Moravia and came as refugees, led by Christian David, to the estate of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony. In 1722 Zinzendorf offered them refuge on his lands, out of which Herrnhut was built. This memorial stone commemorates this beginning:
On 17 June 1722
at this location
for the building
of Herrnhut
the first tree
was felled [by Christian David].
Psalm 84:4.

Psalm 84:4 in the German Bible is Psalm 84:3 in the English Bible, which reads,

Your two altars even the sparrow has found a home;
And the swallow, a nest for herself,
she may lay her young,
O Jehovah of hosts, my King and my God.