The Bruderhof

Movement·Founded 1920 CE·About 3,000 people in roughly two dozen communities as of 2024, in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Paraguay, Australia and South Korea. The Bruderhof does not publish an audited membership figure; the count includes children and resident non-members.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → Anabaptism → The Bruderhof

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Overview Belief 3How to Live 1Practice 1Stories & Scripture 1Community 1 You × The Bruderhof Discussion

Stories

the narratives it tells itself
Expelled by the Gestapo, then again by the jungle. The Nazi state dissolved the Rhon Bruderhof in April 1937 and the members scattered to Liechtenstein and England; wartime Britain would not keep a community of German nationals, so in 1940 they sailed for Paraguay and built Primavera in the Chaco, where they stayed until 1961. Read it in full — context →

The Scriptures

the texts that carry the stories — and everything else

The Bible

Eberhard Arnold, Innerland (1914-1936)

The Hutterite Chronicle

Plough Quarterly and the Plough books

Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence.

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