Bund Europäischer Mennonitischer Brüdergemeinden The Bund
Europäischer Mennonitischer Brüdergemeinden (Federation of
European Mennonite Brethren Churches) is an association of 13
autonomous congregations in Austria (4) and West Germany (9).
Most of the purposes and tasks of these churches are carried out
on the local and national level. Six of the German Mennonite
Brethren (MB) churches are united as a "working association"
called Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Mennonitischen Brüdergemeinden in
Deutschland (AMBD). The three MB churches in Bavaria (south
Germany) are working together with the churches in Austria
(Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Mennonitischen Brüdergemeinden in
Osterreich und Bayern, AMBOB). The first Mennonite Brethren
congregation in western Europe was organized in 1950. About 30
Mennonite Brethren refugees from Russia and Poland—who could not
or who did not want to migrate to South America or Canada—united
as a congregation in Neuwied. Ten years later a second Mennonite
Brethren congregation was formed in