When Rapp emigrated to the United States in 1803, a Separatist group from Rottenacker took over the leading role within the movement. It had been initiated in 1800 by a farmgirl named Barbara Grubenmann from Teufen in the Swiss canton Appenzell-Ausserrhoden south of Lake Constance who had come to Rottenacker.
When Rapp immigrated to the United States in 1803, a Separatist group from Rottenacker assumed leadership within the movement that had been initiated by Barbara Grubenmann, a farm girl from Teufen in the Swiss canton Appenzell-Ausserrhoden south of Lake Constance.