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Starewitz (Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic)

Starovice, Jihomoravský kraj
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Starewitz (now Starovice, German Groß Steurowitz), a village near Auspitz in Moravia (48° 57' 4" N, 16° 42' 16" E). Here the Anabaptists who emigrated from Austerlitz with Wilhelm Reublin founded a Bruderhof in 1531 on land granted them by Johana of Boscovice. In it lived about fifty members, most of them sick or children.

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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 611. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.

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