sentences:  Mainly Protestant families established through their skill and diligence the rapidly growing fame of brass and copper products from Aachen.At the
  beginning of the 17th century, the loss of the guild rights in Catholic Aachen forced the now homeless Protestant brass manufacturers to move.Eight families came to nearby Stolberg, a small settlement in the dukedom of Jülich-Cleve-Berg, the brass manufacturer Christian (1614–83) and his family being among them.