Verband deutscher Mennonitengemeinden (Federation of Mennonite
Churches) The Badisch-Würrtembergisch-Bayerischer
Gemeindeverband was the union of eight Mennonite congregations
of Baden, five of Württemberg, two of the Palatinate, and four
of Bavaria. Originally it probably embraced all the
congregations in the former territory of the Palatinate on the
right bank of the Rhine, the margravure of Baden-Durlach and the
Kraichgau listed by Ernst Müller (Berner Täufer, 209-211) as of
1731: Dühren, Hasselbach, Meckesheim, and Wössingen, besides
Bockschaft (today Sinsheim), Büchelhof (today Hasselbach),
Helmstadt (today Hasselbach), Haschhof (extinct),
Hohenhardterhof-Baiertal (extinct) near Wiesloch, Immelhausen
(today Sinsheim), Rohrhof (extinct) near Heidelberg,
Streichenberg (extinct) near Eppingen, and Zimmerhof (extinct).
In the 19th century the Verband was extended to include the
churches formed in Württemberg and Bavaria by immigration from
Baden. The absence of records makes it impossible to determine
the da