The tradition of families sitting togehter assembling the star and hanging them out on the first Sunday in advent has a long history and is closely linked to the history of the Moravian Church (a Protestant Freechurch).

Herrnhut was founded at the beginning of the C18th by the forefathers of the Moravian Church who were forced to the flee homeland in Bohemia and Moravia. Thanks to the shelter of Count Zinzendorf, they founded a new settlement in the Oberlausitz region where they could work and make a home. The name Herrnhut means under the Lord´s protection. This new town was the birthplace of the new "Herrnhuter Brüderunität", commonly known today outside of Germany as the Moravian Church, a place from which missionaries where sent out all over the world. Whilst their parents dedicated themselves to mission work in many corners of the world, the children received a very good education in the Moravian boarding schools. This gave the children greater opportunities for later life.