Ancient Hutterite Community

On our trip to Moravia we stopped at this place in Slovakia. It was the remains of an ancient Hutterite community. I was very impressed to see what was left here. They also had a very nice museum which told the early Anabaptists story. It was very impressive.

Sorry about the quality of the video. It is just me walking through with my cell phone. :-/
I wish I had the time to do a nice recording but we were just passing through. I hope you enjoy it. :-)

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Below is the link to the article about this community taken from the Mennonite Encyclopedia. I also included a little of the article below.

Veľké Leváre (Bratislavský kraj, Slovakia)

http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/velke_levary_slovakia

Veľké Leváre (Velké Leváry; German, Grosschützen, Gross-Schützen), a village (1959 population, 2,800; 3,554 in 2004) in the Malacky District in the Bratislava region of Slovakia, located on the bank of the Rudava (coordinates: 48° 30′ 0″ N, 17° 0′ 0″ E), a tributary on the left side of the March River. The Hutterian Brethren of Moravia were invited to set­tle here in 1588 by the imperial cupbearer Hans Bernhard von Lembach, who leased them land in return for certain services and payments, and a Bru­derhof was established. The Bruderhof at Veľké Leváre suffered great hardship in the Turkish war of 1605. The troops of General Basta attacked it 4 May. Although most of the inhabitants had fled in time, several brothers and sisters were wounded, some of them fatally, and 42, including the house­master Matthes Pühler, were taken by the Heiducks. Fortunately Hans Zwinkeberger, the barber-surgeon, who had been summoned by the baron, succeeded with the baron's help in releasing the prisoners with­out paying ransom. But not until 1609 was the new lord, Seifried von Kollonitsch, able to persuade the Brethren to rebuild and resettle the Bruderhof at Velke Levary.

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