Billowitz Hutterite Colony (Moravia)
Billowitz (Czech: Velké Bílovice), a Bruderhof of the Hutterian Brethren in Moravia, founded in 1545; on 28 August 1619 the Hauerhaus was burned down by soldiery.
Bibliography
Beck, Josef. Die Geschichts-Bücher der Wiedertäufer in Oesterreich-Ungarn. Vienna, 1883; reprinted Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1967: 164, 173.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols.
Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: v. I, 222.
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