Friedrichsgraben (West Prussia)

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Friedrichsgraben, a district in the Lubianer Niederung, West Prussia, Germany, where Mennonites lived about 1740. They soon left this region because of repeated floods, which made living and farming there impossible. Of their activity the "Mennonitendamm" still bears evidence.


Bibliography

Wiebe, Herbert. Das Siedlungswerk niederländischer Mennoniten im Weichseltal zwischen Fordon und Weissenberg bis zum Ausgang der 18. Jahrhunderts. Wissenschaftliche Beiträge zur Geschichte und Landeskunde Ost-Mitteleuropas, Nr. 3. Marburg a.d. Lahn: [s.n.], 1952: 44.



Author(s) Nanne van der Zijpp
Date Published 1956

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van der Zijpp, Nanne. "Friedrichsgraben (West Prussia)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 24 Nov 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Friedrichsgraben_(West_Prussia)&oldid=64230.

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van der Zijpp, Nanne. (1956). Friedrichsgraben (West Prussia). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 24 November 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Friedrichsgraben_(West_Prussia)&oldid=64230.



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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 401. All rights reserved.


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