Brandenburg Emigration and Immigration • FamilySearch

Immigrants from Switzerland

In 1683 the Elector of Brandenburg offered to take in a few families from the Kanton of Bern. In 1695 fourteen families from Bern with their priest made the way to Brandenburg. They settled around Golmerbruch by Potsdam. A few years later when Switzerland experienced some crop failures, another invitation brought 200 families, mostly people from Bern, into the Havel region close to their compatriots. The settlers formed 6 parishes. Three were lead by priests from Bern and three from Zürich.

Source: Feller, Richard. Geschichte Berns, Bd. III. Verlag Herbert Lang, Bern und Frankfurt/Main, 1974.

Huguenots in Prussia

here is a link to an article explaining in a timeline the migration patterns of Huguenots

http://www.familie-greve.de/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=7292&view=previous