!!!Zillertaler Inklinanten

Zillertaler Inklinanten, a group of about 430 Protestants who were 
expelled from Ziller Valley in 1837 because of their faith. As the 
valley was divided between Salzburg and Tyrol (until 1803), a group of 
clandestine Protestants managed to stay; in 1826 numerous families 
left the Catholic church, a development which representatives of the 
province of Tyrol, the nobility and the church regarded as being 
dangerous for the religious unity of the province. The Zillertaler 
Inklinanten invoked the  Edict of Tolerance (1781) without success: 
Emperor Franz I expressed his explicit rejection, Emperor 
Ferdinand I forced them into emigration. The majority of 
Protestants from the Ziller Valley emigrated to Silesia in Prussia 
(Erdmannsdorf, Ziller Valley). Protestant communities were not founded 
in Tyrol until 1875.

!Literature
E. Sauser, Die Zillertaler Inklinanten und ihre Ausweisung 
im Jahre 1837, 1959.


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