Note 140 — SCHWENKFELDERS.
Reading edition
The aria already alluded to says,—
“Throw their dead away, like foul corruption, The cow-path is too good; don’t tread upon the grass; The father shall not follow the body of his child, Nor the wife accompany her husband to the house of death.”
The word that I have translated cattle-path, etc., is viehweg. A note upon this verse of the aria says, “1722. Three hundred persons lie upon the cow-paths at Harpersdorf and Langendorff.” If so many were buried during the time of the Catholic mission, these people must have been numerous.