Creutz (Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic)

Creutz (Kreutz) is a village near Göding (Czech: Hodonin) in Moravia, where the last adherents of the Anabaptist Gabriel Ascherham lived. They united with the Hutterian Brethren in 1565 and established a Bruderhof, which was plundered and burned down by soldiers on 12 June 1605.

Bibliography

Beck, Josef. Die Geschichts-Bücher der Wiedertäufer in Oesterreich-Ungarn. Vienna, 1883: 248, 351.

Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 v. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: I, 381.

Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 740. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.

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MLA style: Hege, Christian. "Creutz (Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1953. Web. 19 May 2013. http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/creutz_jihomoravsky_kraj_czech_republic.

APA style: Hege, Christian. (1953). Creutz (Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 19 May 2013, from http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/creutz_jihomoravsky_kraj_czech_republic.

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