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The Münster rebellion (German: Täuferreich von Münster, "Anabaptist dominion of Münster") was an attempt by radical Anabaptists to establish a communal sectarian government in the German city of Münster – then under the large Prince-Bishopric of Münster in the Holy Roman Empire.
Jun 26, 2023 · Learn about the 16th-century Anabaptist movement that seized a German city and claimed it to be the New Jerusalem. Discover the theological beliefs, the violent outcome, and the lessons for today from this forgotten episode in church history.
May 3, 2018 · The North Rhine-Westphalian city of Münster in western Germany stands out in world history due to a particularly dark period in its past. Back in the 1500s, a brutal rebellion took place when...
Oct 27, 2021 · Münster provided a snapshot of royalist critiques of their enemies in the 1640s and 1650s. Including rebellion against the established authorities, millenarian excitement, radical sectaries, and violent attacks on religious orthodoxy, it linked to ongoing concerns about ‘radical’ groups such as Quakers and Fifth Monarchists.
Jan 22, 2012 · Just a few years before, southern Germany had been shaken by an apocalyptic peasant rebellion led by Thomas Muntzer, a sort of proto-Anabaptist.* Though northern Germany was spared that particular maelstrom, that same religious tension and social discontent soon blew a hyperborean wind.
Yet for several surreal months in 1535-6, Münster was the scene of a radical religious and political experiment, an attempt by a small group of radical Protestants to create a totalitarian communist theocracy, a ‘New Jerusalem’ located not in the deserts of Palestine, but in the fertile region of Münsterland.
A Catholic supported army, led by Franz von Waldeck, Prince-Bishop of Münster, Osnabrück and Minden, laid siege to the town of Münster after the Anabaptist takeover. Matthys led an assault on the siege on Easter Sunday 1534, but died quickly.
