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Diksmuide (West-Vlaanderen, Belgium)
Diksmuide (Dixmuiden; French, Dixmude) is a city in West Flanders in Belgium (coodinates: 51° 2′ 0″ N, 2° 52′ 0″ E) with about 15,500 inhabitants (2008), where there was a small Anabaptist church in the 16th century. On 4 March 1581 a conference of Dutch Mennonite Waterlanders, meeting at Amsterdam, decided to elect a preacher at Diksmuide. BibliographyDoopsgezinde Bijdragen (1877): 80. Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: I, 456. 
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Scottdale, Pennsylvania, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 76. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website. ©1996-2010 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved. To cite this page: MLA style: Neff, Christian. "Diksmuide (West-Vlaanderen, Belgium)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 19 March 2010. http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/dixmuiden_west_vlaanderen_belgium. APA style: Neff, Christian. (1956). Diksmuide (West-Vlaanderen, Belgium). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 19 March 2010, from http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/dixmuiden_west_vlaanderen_belgium. Document Actions |
