Places of remembrance of the Anabaptist movement

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Spread and centers of the Anabaptist movement

To the memory locations, the Baptist movement the memory of the resultant in the first half of the 16th century the movement is in different ways Baptist maintained.

The obvious external characteristic of this movement was the strict rejection of infant baptism and the consistent practice of believing baptism . Your concerns were and are much more extensive. The Anabaptists asked about the nature of the church in writing, word and life practice , called for the separation of throne and altar and pioneered the freedom of belief and conscience guaranteed by law much later . They discussed the question of whether Christians were allowed to do military service and came to different conclusions. Based on their respective biblical insights, they looked for new forms of human coexistence and developed different models, some of which were contradicting each other. Many members of the Reformation Anabaptist movement were persecuted, expelled and martyred because of their beliefs . Modern Anabaptist research speaks - parallel to the genocide - of an ecclesiocide that was perpetrated on the Anabaptists. In addition to the state authorities, it was above all the representatives of the Catholic , Evangelical-Lutheran and Evangelical-Reformed churches who were significantly involved.

Over the past few decades there has been a rethinking of the legacy of the so-called left wing of the Reformation . It is expressed, among other things, in the fact that a number of places that are historically relevant to the Anabaptist movement have been specially marked. The following list - sorted by country and location - offers a not yet complete overview.

Germany

Baden-Württemberg

  • Sattler memorial stone

  • Back of the memorial stone

Bavaria

  • Althegnenberg-Hörbach : Anabaptist fountain with the inscription: In memory of 9 victims from our homeland who were persecuted as "Anabaptists" because of their beliefs during the Reformation. They atone for their peacefulness and their commitment to the basic values ​​of the Christian faith with their lives. Among them were four Hörbachers: Matthes Hoffmair ; Andre on the stilts ; Christoph Jos and Gebhardt. If they remind us today of tolerance towards those of different faiths, those who think differently and strangers, then their death was not in vain. 1527-1999
  • Augsburg : Susanna Daucher's house , Schleifergässchen . A memorial plaque was placed here in April 2013. The inscription reads: On Easter morning, April 12, 1528, a congregation of the Anabaptists gathered in the house of the sculptor HANS DAUCHER and his wife SUSANNA.
    The city guard blew up the illegal "gathering" and arrested 88 people. They were interrogated, some of them under torture. Most of them were expelled by resolution of the city council. Dorothea Fröhlich , Scholastika Stierpaur and Thomas Paur were     branded . Elisabeth Heggenmiller's tongue was cut out. Head Hans Leupold was executed on April 25, 1528.
    Susanna Daucher was expelled on April 21, 1528. Because she was pregnant, she was spared the branding. She had to leave her two little sons behind.

  • Baptist fountain

  • Augsburg: Dauchers house, Hinterer Lech 2

  • Memorial plaque on the house, Hinterer Lech 2

Lower Saxony

  • Big church in Emden - this is where Melchior Hofmann baptized.

  • Former Mennonite Church

  • Judge's House

North Rhine-Westphalia

  • Munster :
    • Anabaptist baskets - After her conviction on January 16, 1536, the public torture and execution of the three remaining leaders of the Anabaptist Empire of Münster took place at the foot of the Lamberti Church on January 22 of that year. They were hung on the tower of the church in three iron baskets, "that they served as a warning and a horror to all troubled spirits, that they would not try or dare something similar in the future" . There are three replicas of the baskets, which were made in 1888. It was acquired by Hermann Landois (1835–1905, professor of zoology) for his pseudo-historical collection in the Tuckesburg in the old zoo . These copies were loaned from there in 1982 for the exhibition by Stephan Huber in the Westphalian Art Association and provided with white glider wings in the exhibition room in the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History under the title The Kingdom of God flies - the Art Association dances (catalog). Today they hang in the Münster City Museum . The originals are still hanging on the Lambertikirche.

  • Baptist baskets on the tower of the Lamberti Church

  • Pavement memorial stones

Rhineland-Palatinate

Under the heading Anabaptist Traces in the Palatinate , information boards at various locations have been referring to the history of the Rhineland-Palatinate Mennonites since 2017. They invite you to explore the "diverse history of persecution, displacement and death, but also of tolerance and integration" and at the same time to hike and experience it by bike or car .

By mid-2018, boards were installed in the following buildings or locations:

  • Mennonite Church Worms-Ibersheim

  • Sembach Mennonite Church

  • Partial view of the Münchhof

Schleswig-Holstein

  • Mennocate

Thuringia

  • Memorial plaque for Fritz Erbe on the Storchenturm in Eisenach

  • Wartburg south tower: trap door to the dungeon; Fritz Erbes prison from 1540 to 1548; above a plaque

  • Memorial stone on the Elisabethplan below the Wartburg, where Fritz Erbe may have been buried

  • Street in Eisenach - named after Fritz Erbe

  • Reinhardsbrunn-Anabaptist-Stele-1-CTH.jpg
  • Reinhardsbrunn-Anabaptist-Stele-2-CTH.jpg
  • Reinhardsbrunn-Anabaptist-Stele-3-CTH.jpg
  • Zella-Mehlis : Memorial stone on the left in front of the east entrance of the Church of St. Blasii with the inscription: In memory of the Anabaptists from Zella St. Blasii . The memorial gives the year of the execution of six Anabaptists (1530) and the year of its construction (2013). The Zella-Mehlis parish is named as the donor of the memorial stone.
  • Zella-Gedenkstein-Anabaptistgemeinde-1-CTH.jpg
  • Zella-Gedenkstein-Anäufergemeinde-2-CTH.jpg
  • Zella-Memorial-Stone-Anabaptist-3-CTH.jpg

Netherlands

  • Monument to Menno Simons in Witmarsum

Austria

innsbruck

  • In Innsbruck, the Hutterweg and a memorial plaque by the Golden Roof commemorate Jakob Hutter. In the years 2006 to 2007 a working group was formed in Innsbruck to seek signs of reconciliation with the Hutterites . It includes representatives of the Protestant and Catholic Church, the peace movement Pax Christi Tirol and the working group of evangelical congregations. On February 25, 2007, an act of remembrance took place in front of the Golden Roof and a joint prayer service in the old Innsbruck town hall. At the invitation of the working group, three Hutterite married couples came to Tyrol.
  • The Remaining Brocken Anabaptist Memorial is located in the new Hutterer Park in Innsbruck . The park and the memorial are sponsored by the aforementioned Hutterite Working Group in Tyrol ( Visible Protestant: Remaining Brocken ).

  • Memorial plaque on the Golden Roof in Innsbruck

  • Hutterweg in Innsbruck

Niedersulz

  • Anabaptist Museum in Niedersulz

Rattenberg (Tyrol)

Rattenberg is the birthplace of the well-known hydraulic engineer and Anabaptist guide Pilgram Marbeck .

  • Rattenberg castle ruins - place of execution of 71 Anabaptists

Vienna

  • Memorial plaque for Balthasar Hubmaier

Switzerland

Corgémont

  • Baptist Bridge

Schleitheim

  • Permanent exhibition on the history of Anabaptists, especially on the Schleitheim articles , in the village museum

Sonceboz-Sombeval

  • Sonceboz-Sombeval - starting point of the Anabaptist Trail

  • Course of the Anabaptist Path

  • Anabaptist Bridge (photo from 1918)

  • Secured remains of bridges and a new footbridge

Sumiswald

  • Haslenbach Baptist Museum, set up on the farm that was once inhabited by Hans Haslibacher .

Turbidity

  • Anabaptist Court with permanent exhibition, Anabaptist adventure trail

  • Anabaptist Court

Zollikon

  • A plaque on a house in Gstadstrasse commemorates one of the first meetings (January 25, 1525) of the Anabaptists.

  • Memorial plaque in Gstadstrasse

Zurich

  • Konrad Grebel

  • Felix Manz

Slovakia

Sobotište

  • Haban Church

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Remszeitung (7 December 2009): Memory of the executed in Schwabisch Gmund in 1529 followers of the Baptist ; Accessed June 3, 2013
  2. ↑ Internet presence of the Baptist Congregation Waldshut ; Accessed June 2, 2013
  3. ^ Augsburg: Anabaptist fountain Hörbach ; Accessed June 3, 2013
  4. ↑ Mennonite Congregation Augsburg: Unveiling of memorial plaque Susanna Daucher, April 12, 2013 ; accessed on May 27, 2013
  5. ^ Thomas Seifert: The Anabaptists at Münster . agenda Verlag, Münster 1993, ISBN 3-929440-18-0 , p. 42
  6. ↑ Täuferspuren.de: Baptist tracks in Rhineland-Palatinate ; accessed on August 4, 2018
  7. ↑ Täuferspruren.de: Weierhof High School ; accessed on August 4, 2018
  8. ↑ Sabine Birkenbeil: Anthropological investigations of a skeleton from the Elisabethplan below the Wartburg and the Anabaptist Fritz Erbe , Wartburg Yearbook 2007, Verlag Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7954-2216-5 , pages 168-74
  9. ↑ Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk: theme year "Religion and Tolerance" opened ; Accessed June 3, 2013
  10. ↑ Beatrix Pinzer, Egon Pinzer: Castles, palaces and ruins in North Tyrol and East Tyrol . 1996. p. 172
  11. ↑ Museum Schleitheim: Baptist exhibition ; Accessed June 3, 2013
  12. ↑ Swiss Bauer.ch: Where once lived a martyr (25 June 2016) ; accessed on December 5, 2019
  13. ^ Trub parish: Anabaptist hiding place in the hut ditch ; Accessed June 3, 2013