List of churches in the working group of Mennonite congregations in Germany

The list gives an overview of the churches and meetinghouses or community centers within the Working Group of Mennonite Congregations in Germany (AMG). In addition to the buildings listed here, there are others by Mennonite communities and meetinghouses outside the AMG (such as the AMBD ).

introduction

As a church , community center or community center in the sense of this list, prayer houses or the like are also understood. Churches used by Mennonite congregations or other meeting rooms of other churches and institutions on a permanent basis (e.g. by lease) are also considered churches in the Working Group of Mennonite congregations in Germany for the purposes of this list .

Since the Mennonites have a Congregational structure , the church buildings are administered directly by the individual communities on site.

The three “community associations” (according to the Mennonite self-image; viewed from the outside, the name churches formally suggests itself ) that make up the AMG are called regional associations :

ASM: Working Group of Southwest German Mennonite Communities (mainly in Rhineland-Palatinate)
VdM: Association of German Mennonite Congregations (mainly in southern Germany)
VDM: Association of the German Mennonite Congregations (mainly in Northern Germany)

Churches, meeting houses and other used buildings

place	country	Regional association	designation	Construction time / completion / renovation / inauguration	Comments / pictures	Bibliography / Internet link
augsburg	Bavaria	VdM	Meeting in the YMCA home			Website of the municipality (August 20, 2009)
Backnang	Baden-Württemberg	VdM	Parish hall		Picture of the parish hall at the inauguration in 1951	Community website
Bad Friedrichshall- Kochendorf	Baden-Württemberg	VdM	Parish hall		It is a former school building	Community website (August 29, 2009)
Bad Königshofen in Grabfeld	Bavaria	VdM	Church services in the Ev. Parish hall
Berlin	Berlin	VDM	Menno home	?, Rented in 1952, acquired before 1962	The parish hall also houses the Mennonite Peace Center and is also designed for overnight stays (hence home ).	History of the Menno-Heim (27.11.09; MS Word ; 39 kB)
Bielefeld - Sennestadt	North Rhine-Westphalia	VDM	Services in the Matthias Claudius House			MJ 2010, 132.
Bolanden - Weierhof	Rhineland-Palatinate	ASM	Mennonite Church Weierhof	1837, 1980 renovation	Based on the model of a Quaker church in Tottenham (England), a new church, the “house of prayer”, is being built. ... construction costs at that time: 3,298 guilders .	History of the Weierhof (27.11.09)
Bremen	Bremen	VDM	Church services alternate in the Protestant parish hall of Waller and in the Protestant parish hall in Lutherstrasse. in Delmenhorst			[1] , 11/27/09; MJ 2010, 153f.
Dusseldorf	North Rhine-Westphalia	VDM	Once a month service in the Evangelical Kreuzkirche .
Emden	Lower Saxony	VDM	Parish hall	Parish hall (also Mennonite church), former Mennonite church destroyed in World War II		Website of the Conference of Northwest German Mennonite Congregations (August 29, 2009)
Enkenbach-Alsenborn	Rhineland-Palatinate	ASM	Parish hall	Built in 1957	Cooperation with the Menno-Heim nursing home	Community website (August 29, 2009)
Fellbach -Oeffingen (near Stuttgart )	Baden-Württemberg	VdM	Parish hall		Mennonite Congregation Stuttgart	Community website (August 29, 2009)
Frankenthal - Eppstein	Rhineland-Palatinate	ASM	Mennonite Church Eppstein	1779 2004 interior renovated	Towards the end of the 18th century, meeting houses were built ... which took in more than the originally permitted 20 people, but which were not allowed to be recognizable as churches from the outside; they had to look like farmhouses. (The little church in Frankenthal-Eppstein has preserved the state of such a hidden church to this day.)	Community portrait on the AMG website (August 29, 2009)
Frankfurt am Main	Hesse	ASM	Parish hall	?, Inaugurated in 1956		History of the community (11/27/09)
Freiburg in Breisgau	Baden-Württemberg	VdM	Services usually in the Ev. pen			http://www.mennoniten.de/freiburg.html (27.11.09), MJ 2010, 158.
Friedelsheim	Rhineland-Palatinate	ASM	Mennonite Church Friedelsheim	Built 1836–1838, renovated in 2004	The church is located in the area of the former Friedelsheim Castle	Community website (August 29, 2009) Website of the architectural office Rolf Reinhart (August 29, 2009) Wikimedia Commons (November 22, 2011)
Friedrichstadt	Schleswig-Holstein	VDM	Mennonite Church Friedrichstadt	?, Side building of the Alte Münze warehouse, acquired in 1708, renovated several times
Goettingen	Lower Saxony	VDM	Services in the Marienstift , Braunschweig , as well as in the Baptist Church , Göttingen			MJ 2010, 159.
Gronau	North Rhine-Westphalia	VDM	Mennonite Church Gronau	Built in 1904, rebuilt after the Second World War		Website of the Conference of Northwest German Mennonite Congregations (August 29, 2009)
Hall	Saxony-Anhalt	VdM	unknown			Parish website (August 30, 2009)
Hamburg - Altona	Hamburg	VDM	Mennonite Church Hamburg-Altona	Built in 1915		Mennonite community in Hamburg and Altona
Hamburg- HafenCity	Hamburg	VDM	Bridge Ecumenical Forum HafenCity	2008	Ecumenical chapel with other Christian communities	Ecumenical Forum website (August 30, 2009)
Hanover	Lower Saxony	VDM	Church services monthly after announcement in Hanover, Celle and Lüneburg			MJ 2010, 160
Heidelberg - Bammental	Baden-Württemberg	VdM	Church services in a day care center			Parish website (December 3, 2009)
Ingolstadt	Bavaria	VdM	Community center			Community website (August 29, 2009)
Kaiserslautern	Rhineland-Palatinate	ASM	Elim Center		Evangelical Free Church in the Elim Center	Community website (August 29, 2009)
Karlsruhe	Baden-Württemberg	VdM	Community center in the Thomashof			Community website (August 29, 2009)
Katzweiler	Rhineland-Palatinate	ASM	Church on the Kühbörncheshof	Built in 1832		Parish website (August 29, 2009); MJ 2010, 162
Krefeld	North Rhine-Westphalia	VDM	Mennonite Church Krefeld	Built 1691–1696; 1843 an apse is added ; Destroyed in 1943; Rebuilt in 1949; 1958 extension of a community center; 1990 renovation		Community website (August 29, 2009)
Landau on the Isar	Bavaria	VdM	Parish hall			Community portrait on the AMG website (August 29, 2009)
Empty	Lower Saxony	VDM	Mennonite Church Leer	Built in 1825; Restored in 2006		Website of the Conference of Northwest German Mennonite Congregations (August 29, 2009)
Lettweiler	Rhineland-Palatinate	ASM	Mennonite Church Neudorferhof			Illustration of the Mennonite Church Neudorferhof (September 29, 2012)
Limburgerhof -Kohlhof	Rhineland-Palatinate	ASM	Kohlhof Mennonite Church and parish hall			Community website (August 29, 2009)
Ludwigshafen am Rhein	Rhineland-Palatinate	ASM	Parish hall, the former Mennonite church on Kurzen Strasse, was demolished by the city of Ludwigshafen due to urban traffic planning	Built in 1960		Community website (August 29, 2009)
Lübeck	Schleswig-Holstein	VDM	Parish hall			Community portrait on the AMG website (August 29, 2009)
Möckmühl	Baden-Württemberg	VdM	Community center			Community website (December 12, 2009)
Monsheim	Rhineland-Palatinate	ASM	Monsheim Mennonite Church	Built in 1820, renovated in 2007		Community portrait on the AMG website (October 3, 2010)
Munich	Bavaria	VdM	Since November 1997, most of the community events have been held in the Lutheran parish hall. Simeons Congregation ... instead.			Community website December 12, 2009
Neustadt an der Weinstrasse - Branchweilerhof	Rhineland-Palatinate	VdM	Branchweilerhof chapel	1275 (?)	Oldest Mennonite church building in the world. Church services have been celebrated in the old hospital chapel since 1277. The foundations and part of the walls date back to the 12th century. The Anabaptist refugees from Switzerland continued this tradition from 1683. Around 1275, when the hospital was built, the chapel, in which we still celebrate our services today, was probably built. Originally it was larger, but the main nave was converted into a residential house (the so-called shepherd's house) in the 17th or 18th century, which was demolished in 1957. Also used by the mission church , member of the VdM (MJ 2010, 169). Conversion of stables and barns on the Branchweilerhof to modern community rooms since 2011.	What is the Branchweilerhof? on the community homepage (27.11.09) See website about the history of the Branchweilerhof (29 August 2009)
Neuwied	Rhineland-Palatinate	VDM	Community Center on the Torney	Built in 1955, expanded in 1970 and 1979, installation of an organ in 1987, partial demolition and rebuilding of the community center in 2005/2006;	The Neuwied Mennonite Church from 1768 was sold in 1979	RW Burkart: A new parish hall - an expression of changed needs , in: MJ 2008, 71–74.
north	Lower Saxony	VDM	Mennonite Church North	Built in 1662 as a patrician house; church building since 1795
Nuremberg	Bavaria	VdM	The service usually takes place ... in the house of the regional church community Strauchstrasse in Nuremberg-Galgenhof.		Nuremberg- Erlangen municipality	http://www.mennoniten.de/nuernberg.html , December 11, 2009
Aspic	Rhineland-Palatinate	ASM	Mennonite Church Obersülzen	Built in 1806 or 1866 2010f. Sales plans in connection with a resolution to merge with the Mennonite congregation in Monsheim, both of which are controversial within the congregation		Dorothea Richter: Can the sale be reversed? , in: The Rheinpfalz / Unterhaardter Rundschau v. May 3, 2011; ibid .: To the point: The dispute is now before the district law committee .
Owingen	Baden-Württemberg	VdM	Parish hall	Built in 2000		Community website (August 29, 2009)
Pfullendorf	Bavaria	VdM	All events ... in our community rooms ... at Spedition Wahl, industrial area behind ALNO.			http://home.arcor.de/W_sieber/termine.htm , December 11th, 2009
Regensburg - Burgweinting	Bavaria	VdM	Community center	Built in 1966		Community website (August 29, 2009)
Reutlingen	Baden-Württemberg	VdM	Church services in the house of the South German Association			Parish website (December 12, 2009)
Schwandorf	Bavaria	VdM	unknown			Parish website (December 12, 2009)
Sembach	Rhineland-Palatinate	ASM	Sembach Mennonite Church	Built in 1777	After the Counts of Wartenberg had granted the building permit, the construction was made possible by contributions from the Dutch and Krefeld Mennonites. In 1835/55 the building was significantly enlarged. Today a large part of the community life takes place in the community hall, where the preacher's apartment is also located.	Community website (August 29, 2009)
Sinsheim	Baden-Württemberg	VdM	Parish hall			Community website (August 29, 2009)
Sinsheim- Hasselbach	Baden-Württemberg	VdM		1846, extension in 1984	Hasselbach community
Worms - Ibersheim	Rhineland-Palatinate	ASM	Mennonite Church Ibersheim	Built in 1836	Indoor shot
Wurzburg	Bavaria	VdM	In the rooms of the regional church community in Reisgrubengasse 1	1953 Start of leasing		Community website (July 6, 2010)
Zweibrücken	Rhineland-Palatinate	ASM	Parish hall			Community portrait on the AMG website (August 29, 2009)

MJ: Mennonite Yearbook

literature

Werner Funck: Communities and their space requirements , in: MJ 2009, pp. 96–99.

Web links

Pictures of the Mennonite cemetery Heubuden near Gdansk , July 17th 2007.
Report on a new community center in Rengsdorf , report on the construction of a new community center for a Mennonite Brethren Congregation in Anhausen , read on November 7, 2011 (both congregations do not belong to the AMG, but the basic principles of current free-church or Mennonite church building become clear).
List of Mennonite Churches in the Netherlands, Dutch Wikipedia (Dutch)

credentials

↑ Dieter Götz Lichdi: The Mennonites in the past and present. From the Anabaptist Movement to the Worldwide Free Church , o. O., 2nd edition 2004, p. 174.

↑ Branchweilerhof , p. 4f., In: Association newspaper. From & for communities of the Association of German Mennonite Communities No. 1/2011, online: http://www.mennonitisch.de/fileadmin/verbandszeitung/VZ_1_2011.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically saved as marked defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , read on November 30, 2011.@1@ 2

↑ Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online: Obersülzen (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)

↑ Mennonews: Mennonite community Obersülzen celebrates 140 years locally

↑ Dieter Götz Lichdi: The Mennonites in the past and present. From the Anabaptist Movement to the Worldwide Free Church , o. O., 2nd edition 2004, p. 174.

↑ Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online: Uffhofen (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)

↑ Mennonite Church Heutensbach. Allmersbach im Tal community, accessed on September 29, 2012 .

[1] Dieter Götz Lichdi: The Mennonites in the past and present. From the Anabaptist Movement to the Worldwide Free Church , o. O., 2nd edition 2004, p. 174.

[2] Dieter Götz Lichdi: The Mennonites in the past and present. From the Anabaptist Movement to the Worldwide Free Church , o. O., 2nd edition 2004, p. 174.