In 1721 ten French families settled in a first settlement area in the open, before in 1755, together with 13 families from the Todenhausen colony, they founded today's village of Wiesenfeld on the site of the former commandery of the German Johanniteroden.

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At this point the first Huguenots settled in the Wiesenfeld district

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