Count Zinzendorf - Death of Zinzendorf

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Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf

Death of Zinzendorf

Zinzendorf died May 9, 1760, and on the following day was laid in a coffin. His coffin was set on display in the Manor House in Herrnhut. “No hour went by, on this and the following days, without groups of brethren and sisters lingering around the coffin—singing, playing, weeping....Through this and the following nights until the burial the laborers and all the most well-known brethren from all the choirs watched with the body. In the morning the sisters took over from them, and so the brethren and sisters took turns to watch....” On May 16 the body was taken into the Congregation Hall (Saal), and then in the afternoon Zinzendorf was buried in God’s Acre in Herrnhut.