Dutzow, the first permanent German settlement in Missouri, was founded in 1832 by an immigrant from Lübeck, the "Baron" Johann Wilhelm von Bock.

[1][2] The Rhenish Germans resided in the Missouri Rhineland: St. Louis, Kansas City, and the towns: Gasconade, Franklin, Lincoln, Montgomery, Osage, Cole, Moniteau, Morgan, Pettis, Benton, Westphalia, Deepwater, Henry.

A German attorney and author named Gottfried Duden purchased land on the north side of the Missouri River along Lake Creek that he first visited in 1824.

There in 1829 he published Bericht über eine Reise nach den westlichen Staaten Nordamerikas (Journal of a trip to the western states of North America), extolling the Missouri valley as a better Rhineland.

[5][6] In 1832, members of the small so-called Berlin Society communally purchased land that became the village of Dutzow, founded by Baron von Bock of Mecklenburg, Germany, in March 1834.

Led by Friedrich Muench and Paul Follenius of the Giessen Emigration Society, German immigrants arrived in the area in 1834.

During the American Civil War, Missouri ranked as the top wine-producing state[citation needed]; then slipped to No.

Just one winery was allowed to continue operations: Saint Stanislaus Seminary in Florissant, which made sacramental wine.

[7] Significant wine-making in Missouri did not resume until the 1960s and 1970s, when small winemakers began building in many different areas of the United States.

[needs update] The area along Missouri Route 94 between Defiance and Marthasville has the highest concentration of wineries in the state.

The highway, which runs largely parallel to the Katy Trail, has been nicknamed the Missouri Weinstrasse (wine route).

When the first 17 settlers arrived at what would become Hermann, Missouri, the land terrain was unexpectedly found to be unsuitable for a town.

[8] With the rise of Anti-German sentiment after the start of World War I in 1914, the Federal government banned the German language in Missouri Rhineland schools.

The Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 caused the closure of several Missouri Rhineland German newspapers, such as the Osage County Volksblatt, and the Sedalia Journal.

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