The Welches Villages
Road book / The Welche Villages Trail / South: 38 km Road book / The Welche Villages Trail / South: 38 km Where did the welches come from? The first Huguenot refugees came from nearby Lorraine The complete Huguenot village trail covers and Champagne. Their reformed (i.e. Calvinist) religion was different from that of the county's other inhabitants who, approximately 38 km. just like their Prince, were followers of the Augsburg confession. The welche families arrived in large numbers, Caution: Lorentzen is around 10 km away from the forming a sufficiently large community to be almost self- starting point (Wolsthof). The trail is not marked out sufficient. They intermarried and found marriage partners in and you should not take any notice of the existing the other Huguenot villages. signposting for bicycles. The welche villages Heckeland Eschwiller’s "Stengel" church Back in the 16th century, the area that you will be travelling The landscape here is undulating and through belonged to the Counts of Nassau-Sarrewerden who To put an end to the quarrels typical of that traditionally used for introduced the Reformation here. Open to those of a between Protestants mixed farming and rearing, with a and Catholics, who had to share patchwork quilt of farmland, meadows different confession, from 1559 onwards the earldom of the religious buildings in Alsace and small wooded areas. The plots are Sarrewerden welcomed refugees from Lorraine, Belgium and Bossue, in 1776 Louis XV and separated by large numbers of northern France, who were fleeing religious persecution in hedges, hence its name: the "hedge the Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken the Kingdom of France and the Duchy of Lorraine.
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