 At the end of the 17th Century Waldensian Protestants forced to flee from Italy settled in Wurmberg.The establishment of the district of Neubärental in 1721 goes back to these religious refugees.An originating theologian of Bärenthal (Hohenzollern) who had converted with some families from Catholicism to Protestantism, had to leave his home in the southern German town of Bärenthal.