29 Facts About Bruderhof Communities

The Bruderhof Communities is an intentional community as defined by the Fellowship for Intentional Community.

Bruderhof Communities maintained connections with the traditional Hutterite Church, from which they broke in 1995.

The word "Bruderhof Communities" was first used by the early Anabaptists in Moravia.

Bruderhof Communities was founded in Germany in 1920 by Eberhard Arnold, a philosophy student and intellectual inspired by the German Youth Movement and his wife Emmy, nee von Hollander.

In 1936 the Bruderhof Communities had purchased a 200-acre farm in England called Ashton Fields, near the village of Ashton Keynes in the Cotswolds area.

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In 1940, confronted with the option of either having all of its German members interned for the duration and its English members conscripted, or leaving England as a group, the Bruderhof Communities chose the latter and some began to look for refuge abroad.

In 1941, the Bruderhof Communities emigrated from England to Paraguay — at the time the only country that would accept a pacifist community of mixed nationalities.

Bruderhof Communities members founded a hospital for community members and local Paraguayans.

In 2010, the Bruderhof Communities opened the Villa Primavera Community in Asuncion, Paraguay.

In 1954, the Bruderhof Communities started a settlement known as the Woodcrest Bruderhof Communities in the United States near Rifton in upstate New York, in response to a dramatic increase in the number of American guests.

In 1990, the Spring Valley Bruderhof Communities was founded adjacent to the New Meadow Run Bruderhof Communities in Farmington, Pennsylvania.

In 1971, the Bruderhof Communities purchased a property in Robertsbridge, East Sussex, United Kingdom called Darvell.

Bruderhof Communities opened a community in Elsmore, a village in the northeast of the Australian state of New South Wales, in 1999.

In 2005, the Bruderhof Communities opened a community in the adjacent town of Inverell, where they operate a sign-writing business.

Also in 2005, the Bruderhof Communities opened a community in Armidale, the nearest city to Inverell and Elsmore.

Bruderhof Communities is an evangelical Anabaptist community that seeks to emulate the practices of early Christianity.

Bruderhof Communities members do not hold private property, but rather share everything.

Bruderhof Communities life is built around the family, though there are many single members.

The Bruderhof Communities is estimated to have around 2,900 members worldwide.

Bruderhof Communities families do not watch television or use the Internet within the home but do so outside of it, with many using smartphones.

The Bruderhof Communities sees justice and the works of mercy as a gospel command.

For instance, in 2019 the Bruderhof Communities collaborated with the Coptic church to commemorate the Coptic martyrs killed by ISIS.

Bruderhof Communities members serve on school boards, volunteer at soup kitchens, prisons and hospitals, and work with local social service agencies such as the police to provide food and shelter for those in need of help.

Bruderhof Communities's Plough Publishing House publishes books and a magazine called Plough Quarterly.

Bruderhof Communities community has at various times campaigned on social issues, such as the death penalty and the Iraq War.

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Bruderhof Communities rarely appear in the mainstream media, but sometimes allow photographers or journalists to observe their life.

The film shows life inside the community, and follows a young person who has reached the age when the Bruderhof Communities encourage them to explore life outside the community.

The Bruderhof Communities objected to the programme, pointing out that the journalist who made the programme had never visited the community.

Bruderhof Communities issued a statement saying the testimony of former members in this story presented a "misleading account" of the community.