Friedenberg, Missouri | |
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 Location of Perry County, Missouri | |
| Coordinates: 37°42′03″N89°47′38″W / 37.70083°N 89.79389°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Missouri |
| County | Perry |
| Township | Central |
| Elevation | 551 ft (168 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| ZIP code | 63775 |
| Area code | 573 |
| FIPS code | 29-25995 [2] |
| GNIS feature ID | 740859 [1] |
Friedenberg is an unincorporated community in Central Township in Perry County, Missouri, United States.
The Bavarians who settled just outside Perryville, Missouri in the 1830s felt so strongly about the importance of peace that they named their town “Friedenberg” (German: Hill of Peace). An old nickname for Friedenberg is “Raccoon Ridge”.
Unlike the communities of Altenburg, Frohna, and Uniontown that were settled by Saxon Lutherans from Germany, Friedenberg was founded in 1838 by Lutheran immigrants from Bavaria, Germany. [3] These Bavarians came from the Upper Franconian region, some from the city of Langenstadt near present-day Kulmbach. They worshiped in members’ homes until a log church was built in 1846 north of Cinque Hommes Creek. From 1852 until 1885 the congregation worshiped at their church on Frankenberg overlooking the Cinque Hommes Bottoms. In 1885 the congregation moved to its present site in Friedenberg and built a brick church. Peace Lutheran Church disbanded in 1980. [4] [5]
Perry County is a county located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,956. Its county seat is Perryville. The county was officially organized on November 16, 1820 from Ste. Genevieve County and was named after Oliver Hazard Perry, a naval hero of the War of 1812.
Longtown is a village in Union Township in Perry County, Missouri, United States. The population was 90 at the 2020 census.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant Lutheran church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA was officially formed on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three Lutheran church bodies. As of 2021, it has approximately 3.04 million baptized members in 8,724 congregations.
Crosstown is an unincorporated settlement situated in Salem Township in Perry County, Missouri, United States, near the Mississippi River.
Old Lutherans were originally German Lutherans in the Kingdom of Prussia, notably in the Province of Silesia, who refused to join the Prussian Union of churches in the 1830s and 1840s. Prussia's king Frederick William III was determined to unify the Protestant churches, to homogenize their liturgy, organization and even their architecture. In a series of proclamations over several years the Church of the Prussian Union was formed, bringing together the majority group of Lutherans, the minority of Reformed. The main effect was that the government of Prussia had full control over church affairs, with the king recognized as the leading bishop.
A shared church, simultaneum mixtum, a term first coined in 16th-century Germany, is a church in which public worship is conducted by adherents of two or more religious groups. Such churches became common in the German-speaking lands of Europe in the wake of the Protestant Reformation. The different Christian denominations, share the same church building, although they worship at different times and with different clergy. It is thus a form of religious toleration.
The Lutheran Church in Ireland is a Lutheran church, operating across the island of Ireland.
Hanover Lutheran Church is a Lutheran congregation in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, that is a member of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. The congregation's original organization came about in 1846 as a result of the heavy German immigration to Missouri in the 19th century. The church's name, "Hanover", was chosen to reflect the place of origin of the majority of its members, since many of the Germans who had settled northwest of the town of Cape Girardeau had immigrated from Hanover, Germany.
Cinque Hommes is one of the eight townships located in Perry County, Missouri, in the United States of America.
Highland is an unincorporated community in Cinque Hommes Township in Perry County, Missouri, United States.
Millheim is an unincorporated settlement in Cinque Hommes Township in Perry County, Missouri, United States.
Cinque Hommes Creek is a tributary of the Mississippi River flowing through Perry County, Missouri.
Salem Lutheran Church is an LCMS church in Farrar, Missouri.
Grace Lutheran Church in Uniontown, Missouri is a member congregation of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS).
Zion Lutheran Church is an LCMS church in Longtown, Missouri.
Peace Lutheran Church is a former congregation of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) in Friedenberg, Missouri.
Trinity Lutheran Church is a member congregation of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) in Altenburg, Missouri.
Immanuel Lutheran Church is an LCMS church in Perryville, Missouri.
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