Editing Hutterites (section)

=== Transylvania ===
In 1621 [[Gabriel Bethlen]], prince of [[Transylvania]] and a [[Calvinism|Calvinist]], "invited" Hutterites to come to his country. In fact he forced a group of 186 Hutterites to come to [[Vințu de Jos|Alvinc]] (today Vințu de Jos, [[Romania]]) in 1622, because he needed craftsmen and agricultural workers to develop his land. In the next two years more Hutterites migrated to Transylvania, in total 690 or 1,089 persons, depending on the sources.<ref>John A. Hostetler: ''Hutterite Society'', Baltimore 1974, pp. 72–73.</ref>

In the second half of the 17th century, the Hutterite community was in decline. It had suffered from [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] incursions during which the {{Lang|de|Bruderhof}} at Alvinc was burned down in 1661.<ref>John Horsch: ''The Hutterian Brethren 1528-1931. A Story of Martyrdom and Loyalty'', Reprint MacMillan Colony, 1985, p. 75.</ref> Towards the end of the century, community of goods was abandoned, when exactly is not known. [[Johannes Waldner]] assumes in ''Das Klein-Geschichtsbuch der Hutterischen Brüder'' that this happened in 1693 or 1694.<ref>Johannes Waldner: ''Das Klein-Geschichtsbuch der Hutterischen Brüder'', Volume 2, p. 223: ("In welchem Jahr aber die Gemeinschaft vergangen und aufgehebt worden, [...] dz kann man nit anzeigen. weil man [...] weder mündliche noch schriftliche Nachricht davon hat. [...] Aus einigen Umständen ist zu schließen, dass es ungefähr Anno 1693 or 94 zum End damit sei gegangen.")</ref>

In 1756, a group of [[Crypto-protestantism|Crypto-Protestants]] from [[Carinthia]] who in 1755 were deported to Transylvania by the [[Habsburg monarchy]], met the Hutterian Brethren at Alvinc. These Carinthian Protestants read the "account of the belief of the Hutterian Brethren" written by Peter Riedemann, which was given to them by the Brothers, and then decided to join the Hutterites.<ref>Johannes Waldner: ''Das Klein-Geschichtsbuch der Hutterischen Brüder'', Volume 2, pp. 273-274</ref> This latter group revived the Hutterite religion, became dominant among the Hutterites and replaced the Tyrolean dialect of the old Hutterites by their Carinthian one, both being [[Southern Bavarian]] dialects. In 1762 community of goods was reestablished in Alvinc.