Maximilian I, King of Bavaria (1765-1825)
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After the Palatinate was ceded to France, Maximilian Joseph was interested in settling Mennonites on farms in South Germany. A number of German princes sought them out as master farmers (Correll, 130-133). An attempt was to be made to open the Donaumoos, northwest of Munich, for agriculture, leading to the founding of Maxweiler (named after the king) by eight Mennonite families from the Palatinate. The Mennonites also acquired a number of suppressed monasteries (1803) in Upper Bavaria and Franconia, which Catholic peasants, partly because of superstitious reasons, were reluctant to accept (Gemeinde-Kalender 1912, 91, and Correll, 134). Thus the first emigration of Mennonites from the Palatinate and from Alsace took place to southern Bavaria. A large number of the Maxweiler families went to America about the middle of the 19th century, but after 1880 new settlements of Mennonites from Baden and Württemberg were made in southern Bavaria.
Bibliography
Correll, E. Das schweizerische Taufermennonitentum. Tubingen, 1925.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: v. III, 63.
Author(s) | Christian Hege |
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Date Published | 1957 |
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