Dompelaars

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In a copper engraving from 1770 the church of the Dompelaars in Altona is referred to as a small Mennonist church , in a later city map from 1803 the building is already listed as the Herrnhuterkirche

The Dompelaars or Dompelers (from the Dutch dompelen ≈ submerge ) were a created in the 17th century reform movement within some Mennonite communities in the Netherlands and northern Germany, the baptism by full immersion demanded (immersion) and also practiced self. In some cases, they were also referred to as evergents ( Latin for to immerse ).

history

The discussion about the baptismal form led to persistent conflicts among the Mennonites in Altona between 1640 and 1648 . There were also discussions about whether the Lord's Supper should be celebrated in the evening with unleavened bread and after washing the feet . In 1648 the Altona Dompelaars finally founded their own congregation, which from 1708 also had its own church on Große Freiheit near Altona Reichenstrasse and the (now canalised) Pepermölenbek . The church was called the little Mennonite church, the evergent church or, after Jakob Denner's profession, the blue dye church. Baptisms were carried out in a pond near Barmbek . Well-known preacher of the Dompelaars in Altona was Jakob Denner . Well-known separatists such as Christian Hoburg , who was in contact with the Schwenkfeldians , also preached in part . After Denner's death, however, the community soon dissolved again. The small church was later used by the Moravians . Dompelaars also worked among Mennonites in Krefeld and Leeuwarden in the Netherlands . The Dompelaars were probably influenced by the Dutch Rhijnsburg colleagues .

At the beginning of the 18th century, some of the Dompelaars joined the radical-pietist Tunkers ( Schwarzenau Brethren ) founded by Alexander Mack , who now settle exclusively in North America.

literature

  • Frans Verschoren: Dompelaars, Boogaerdt, Zeist 1909.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Penner: Worldwide Brotherhood - Mennonite History Book . Weierhof 1984.
  2. ↑ Michael D. Driedger: Refuge and Coexistence - 400 Years of Mennonites in Hamburg and Altona . Mennonite History Association, Bolanden-Weierhof 2001, ISBN 3-921881-16-1 , p. 46 and 51 .
  3. ↑ Volume 1 of the Schleswig-Holstein Fatherland Studies by August Niemann from 1802 states that the Moravians “are parish elsewhere” and use a private building for their meetings that is “usually called the little Mennonite Church”.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Breul : The radical Pietism, perspectives of research . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-55839-3 , p. 153 .
  5. ^ Astrid von Schlachta : danger or blessing? The Anabaptists in Political Communication . Göttingen 2009, p. 46 .