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French Charm and blue Smoke
The Huguenot Cross
image author: Stadtmagazinverlag AS GmbH Schwedt in May 2005: Host of the European Huguenots Day. Honouring of a tolerant town that at the end of the 17th century granted French refugees of faith protection and a place to stay. Not quite unselfish because the little Oder town was still lying in debris and wreckage after the great fire in 1681. The Huguenots came in handy for the Great Elector, 20.000 decent people with crafts and original trades. In the edict from Potsdam the Brandenburg ruler decreed in the year 1685:
Electoral edict from Potsdam about the settlement of Huguenots in Brandenburg
image author: Stadtmagazinverlag AS GmbH "After the ... rigorous procedure, with which today the kingdom of France acted against our protestant-reformed fellow-believer, forces many families to move ... we are persuaded by just compassion ... to offer them a secure and free access to our land ... to be graciously disposed."
„Arrving of Huguenots in der Mark" - Painting by Daniel Chodowiecki
image author: Stadtmagazinverlag AS GmbH The Huguenots of the French colony Schwedt brought progress in production and cultivation with them and the French way of living, fashion and treats, white bread and asparagus, cauliflower and beer.
The tobacco planter, cobbler, tailors, armourer, tanners, hatter, wig maker, cooks and surgeon got privileges as well as settlement plots and enough land to grow tobacco.
Old tobacco drying barn near Vierraden
image author: Stadtmagazinverlag AS GmbH 13 wagonloads of Schwedt tobacco were sold already in 1687 to Greifswald. That plant grew around 1800 already on 3.000 hectares, 120.000 centner of raw tobacco were harvested. The Louis-Harlan-Straße remembers the founder of the first snuff and smoking tobacco manufacture. One of Schwedt's famous Huguenots was the Prussian state master builder David Gilly, a friend of Friedrich Schinkels and his son Friedrich Gilly, who also worked in Berlin with the royal sculptor Johann Schadow.
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