Tirol in Boehmerwald

According to Bruno Sitter, sometime in the 1300s,an entire village of Tyrolean Germans were relocated to the wilds of the Boehmian Forest. They called the new town they established there, Wallern. In English, Wallern means "Whale learning", this is very curious as the Tyrol is hundreds of miles from any ocean, and in fact lies in the European Alps. However it could be a reference to the art of artificial insemination of cattle, perhaps referring to the Biblical story of Jonah who spent time inside a Whale's belly, but in this case it was the insertion of a human arm inside of a cow, for the purpose of impregnating the beast. In any case the village of Wallern was built in a most curious fashion, the people coming from the Tyrol built there homes in the style they were accustomed to,but which seemed entirely out of place in their new home the Bohemian forest. For hundreds of years after the 1300s, travelers took note of the strange architectural style of the town, which seemed so out of place, when compared to other villages in this region.