page_title: Christiansbrunn
section_title: Community disbanded
hierarchical_section_title: Christiansbrunn / Community disbanded
caption_attribution_description: The sacred spring was accessed through the lower door in the cellar of the brethrens' house.
context_page_description: Christiansbrunn is the name of two communities established in Pennsylvania.
context_section_description: In 1771, Christiansbrunn was the last Moravian community in the United States to have its communal economy disbanded. The community continued until officially disbanded by the church on April 1, 1796. The remaining farming operations were placed in the hands of family men while "several of the deteriorated bachelors were given a mere asylum there under watchful restraint" in the words of a late nineteenth-century historian who blamed conditions in the community on alcoholism and a "decadence that became hopeless."
caption: The sacred spring was accessed through the cellar door in the brethren's house.
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