Europe in the Age of the Reformation

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The Anabaptists

The Mennonites

The Mennonites were tolerated in The Netherlands, and the Articles of Dordrecht included them. For this reason, the Dutch Anabaptists never had to flee as the Swiss and Germans did. Nevertheless, they did decline in numbers during the eighteenth century, in part because Calvinism achieved such success there.

Mennonites were also in Germany, though, they were were indeed persecuted. They, like the Hutterites, wound up going to Russia by various routes, and again like the Hutterites, left that country in the nineteenth century to avoid being forced into military service. The ones who remained were killed or fled in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Mennonite communities still survive in the United States and Canada.