 Members of the Moravian Church settled at Fulneck in 1744.They were descendants of old Bohemian/Czech Unity of the Brethren, extinct in Bohemia after 1620 due to forcible re-Catholicisation imposed on the Czech lands by Habsburg emperors.These church members had found refuge in 1722 in Saxony on the estate of Nicolaus Ludwig Count von Zinzendorf.