Hutterites

Hutterites , also called Hutterian Brethren (German: Hutterische Brüder), are a communal <a href="/facts/Ethnoreligious_group/FEVebd8v">ethnoreligious</a> branch of <a href="/facts/Anabaptism/hznb5ped">Anabaptists</a>, who, like the <a href="/facts/Amish/5MX4wRT3">Amish</a> and <a href="/facts/Mennonites/pFLcS0Pg">Mennonites</a>, trace their roots to the <a href="/facts/Radical_Reformation/qu8rg5nf">Radical Reformation</a> of the early 16th century and have formed <a href="/facts/Intentional_communities/EepJQdrm">intentional communities</a>.
The founder of the Hutterites, <a href="/facts/Jakob_Hutter/IMgxdCw1">Jakob Hutter</a>, "established the Hutterite colonies on the basis of the <a href="/facts/Schleitheim_Confession/QLoIYgmD">Schleitheim Confession</a>, a classic Anabaptist statement of faith" of 1527. He formed the first communes in 1528 in Tyrole (present-day Italy). Since the death of Hutter in 1536, the beliefs of the Hutterites, especially those espousing a <a href="/facts/Community_of_goods/qALIU6ty">community of goods</a> and <a href="/facts/Nonresistance/gCssIeNN">nonresistance</a>, have resulted in hundreds of years of <a href="/facts/Diaspora/jAEHerxI">diaspora</a> in many countries. The Hutterites embarked on a series of migrations through central and eastern Europe. Nearly extinct by the 18th century, they migrated to <a href="/facts/Russian_Empire/hg1g5SpV">Russia</a> in 1770 and about a hundred years later to <a href="/facts/North_America/djNjCQIl">North America</a>. Over the course of 140 years, their population living in <a href="/facts/Community_of_goods/qALIU6ty">communities of goods</a> recovered from about 400 to around 50,000 at present. Today, almost all Hutterites live in <a href="/facts/Western_Canada/2jEGmMd2">Western Canada</a> and the upper <a href="/facts/Great_Plains/LWPW30WU">Great Plains of the United States</a>.

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