For Zercher there are 93 on Yasni with different names.
Among the most common last names on Yasni Zercher is on position 4434.
Already at the time of the first reformers were created in Switzerland first radical evangelical circles. Above all in Zurich, there were many citizens who had seemed the doctrine of Huldrych Zwingli addressed too little for the Bible. 1525 a first congregation was founded. Although many were members of the movement that was called because of their rejection of infant baptism Baptist or Anabaptist, drowned, beheaded or burned at the stake, their faith is continuing to spread. From the Jura to Lake Constance joined people at the Swiss Brethren. Both the reformed as the Catholic authorities proceeded with an iron hardness against the Baptist. Hundreds died as martyrs. To escape persecution, emigrated from many Baptist. First to Bohemia and Moravia, and later in the Swiss Jura - where they were under the protection of the Bishop of Basel - Alsace, the Palatinate and Holland. End of the 17th Century there was a split in the movement. From it emerged the Amish. Many Anabaptists in Switzerland migrated between 17 and 19 Century from, beginning in 1720, particularly in the United States, where they could practice their faith freely in Pennsylvania. ) In their home to the new immigrants to the section for the people of Zurich ", or" the Zurich-based "has been called his http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mennoniten (. By linguistic features of the old-established residents have in the course of time the name of the shortening "Zurich" to "Zercher". This is the only explanation I have ever heard. She comes from a school at the Goethe in Kaiserslautern until the late 1960s working elementary school teacher.
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