ABSTRACT
Change, modernization, and development can be traced throughout the history of the village. Some centuries were more pronounced in either their growth or their destructiveness, but the village has adapted to each. With the advent of industrialization, large numbers of outsiders began settling in the village. In the late 19th century the village nature of the community was strained by the development of a Saxon community within it. As the German economy continued to expand after the refugees had all been successfully integrated into the labor force, Germany began drawing in workers from southern Europe. Religion represented the shared understandings about the most important moral topics, and so long as the differences existed between Lutherans and Catholics, it was not possible for the two groups to intermarry or to form a single, united moral community. As more people share the understandings about the importance of services rather than just industrial output, the emphasis on existing industrial structures declines.
