 When some parents refused to send their children to school the pupils were taken away to the orphanage at Stuttgart, the capital of Württemberg.In 1811, some Separatists from Rottenacker bought the local 'Vogthaus' (today the Protestant ministry) near the church where they lived in a community of goods.Six years later, together with Separatists from other villages, they acquired an estate named Brandenburg near the border to Bavaria where they intended to found a community based on their religious principles.