Ensisheim (Alsace, France)

Ensisheim, a town (pop. 3,212 in 1950) in Upper Alsace, Gebwiller district, was in the 16th century the seat of the Austrian government in Alsace, which ruthlessly stamped out the Anabaptist movement. Six hundred Anabaptists are said (by Sebastian Franck) to have been executed here.

Eberhard Hofmann, the city clerk of Ensisheim, participated in the trial of Michael Sattler in Rottenburg, Württemberg, Germany, and with his venomously hostile attitude contributed to the injustice of the trial.

See Basel and Alsace

Bibliography

Beemelmans, W. Die Verfassung und Verwaltung der Stadt Ensisheim im 16. Jahrhundert. Strasbourg, 1908.

Cornelius, C. A. Geschichte des Münsterischen Aufruhrs. Leipzig, 1860: II, 57.

Muralt, Leonhard von and Walter Schmid. Quellen zur Geschichte der Täufer in der Schweiz, I. Band: Zürich. Zürich: S. Hirzel, 1952: 251.

Spach, L. Description du Departement du Bas-Rhin: I, 178.

Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: I, 594.

Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 226. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.

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APA style: Neff, Christian. (1956). Ensisheim (Alsace, France). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 19 June 2013, from http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/ensisheim_alsace_france.

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