Swiss Amish

The Swiss Amish are a subgroup of the Amish, that immigrated to the United States mostly in the middle of the 19th century directly from Switzerland and the Alsace and not in the 18th century via the Palatinate as most Amish did. They do not speak Pennsylvania German, but either a form of Bernese German or a Low Alemannic Alsatian dialect. Their main settlements are in Adams County, Indiana (Bernese Amish) and in Allen County, Indiana (Alsatian Amish). They form two distinct Amish affiliations.

Amish coming directly from Switzerland, neighboring Alsace and the Montbéliard region first came to the Midwest in the 1830s. Amish from Bern and the Jura Mountains settled in Wayne County, Ohio in 1835. In 1850 they went west and founded the settlement in Adams County, Indiana. In 1850 Amish from the Montbéliard region settled in Stark County, Ohio and founded the settlement in Allen County, Indiana in 1852. Not all Swiss Amish migrations can be traced The Amish settlement in Daviess County, Indiana founded in 1868, was settled largely by Swiss Amish from Allen County, but later was mostly assimilated into the Pennsylvania German Amish culture. There are still speakers of the Alsatian dialect in Daviess County, however.

The Swiss Amish are more conservative concerning the use of technology than the majority of the Amish. Characteristic for the Swiss Amish is the use of open buggies only and the marking of graves with plain wooden stakes bearing only the initials of the deceased.

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