Suchdol nad Odrou a market town

Market town

Market town or market right is a legal term, originating in the medieval period, for a European settlement that has the right to host markets, distinguishing it from a village and city...

 in Moravian-Silesian Region

Moravian-Silesian Region

Moravian-Silesian Region , or Moravo-Silesian Region, is one of 14 administrative Regions of the Czech Republic, until May 2001 it was formerly called the Ostrava Region . The region is located in the north-eastern part of its historical region of Moravia and in most of the Czech part of the...

, Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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. It was from Suchdol/Zauchtenthal that many of the first religious refugees beginning in 1722 came to the estate of Count von Zinzendorf to begin the building of Herrnhut

Herrnhut

Herrnhut is a municipality in the district of Görlitz, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany.It has access to Bundesstraße 178 between Löbau and Zittau...

 and later to renew the Unitas Fratrum

Unitas Fratrum

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 of their ancestors, today called the Moravian Church the Jednota Bratrska or Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine.