Schobdacher Circle of Friends

The Pushed roofs of friends is a beginning of the 20th century in Central Franconia Pushed roof founded, Pentecostal oriented community of faith that in the era of National Socialism was banned.

history

A few years after a conversion experience (around 1903), the Schobdacher farmer Michael Niedermüller began to hold church services with a small group of friends in his house . This resulted in a movement that soon spread to the surrounding towns and found supporters as far as the Palatinate and Mecklenburg ( Schwerin 1928). The group was close to the Pentecostal movement , but stayed in the regional church . At the end of each month a joint event took place in Schobdach.

On April 20, 1937, the Schobdacher Freundeskreis was founded - just like the “Christian Assembly” a week earlier and the “ Seventh-day Adventists from III. Part ”- dissolved and banned for the entire Reich territory by a circular issued by the Reichsführer SS and chief of the German police, Heinrich Himmler . The three bans were announced in the daily press on April 28th.

After the end of the Second World War , contact arose between the Schobdacher Freundeskreis and the Ansbach Methodist superintendent Paul Riedinger (1882–1949). Some of the "Schobdacher" then joined the Methodists as "friendship members", and the preaching service at the end of the month in Schobdach was carried out by lay brothers or the pastor of the Nuremberg Methodist Zion Church until 2018 .

Since then, the Schobdacher Freundeskreis has only existed as a small house group due to reasons of age .

literature

Jutta Balzer-Steinfath: The community in retrospect: Schobdach . In: Community letter of the Evangelical Methodist Church, district of Nuremberg-Zionskirche , August – September 2018, p. 12 ( online ).

Individual evidence

↑ Werner Weber : The small religious communities in the state church law of the National Socialist regime , in: Otto Bachof , Martin Drath u. a. (Ed.): Research and reports from public law. Gedächtnisschrift for Walter Jellinek , Isar Verlag, Munich 1955, pp. 101–112, here 108 (with a misspelling “Schopdacher”; so probably already in the underlying decree and throughout the later literature).
↑ Gerhard Jordy quoted in The Brothers Movement in Germany , Volume 3: The development since 1937 , R. Brockhaus , Wuppertal 1986, p. 91 exemplarily the Kölnische Zeitung .

[1] Werner Weber : The small religious communities in the state church law of the National Socialist regime , in: Otto Bachof , Martin Drath u. a. (Ed.): Research and reports from public law. Gedächtnisschrift for Walter Jellinek , Isar Verlag, Munich 1955, pp. 101–112, here 108 (with a misspelling “Schopdacher”; so probably already in the underlying decree and throughout the later literature).

[2] Gerhard Jordy quoted in The Brothers Movement in Germany , Volume 3: The development since 1937 , R. Brockhaus , Wuppertal 1986, p. 91 exemplarily the Kölnische Zeitung .