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Stuttgart District

Birthplace of Christoph Gottlob Müller

Stuttgart District

Birthplace of Christoph Gottlob Müller

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Birthplace of Christoph Gottlob Müller

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Location: Winnenden, Rems-Murr-Kreis, Stuttgart District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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1. View of Bürg – ⭐️🐷 Winnenden Market Fountain loop from Winnenden

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2. Winnenden Castle Church – Winnenden Old Town loop from Schelmenholz

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3. Playground – Stream loop from Hungerberg

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March 29, 2022

The birthplace of Gottlob Müller is located here (* November 11, 1785 in Winnenden; † March 17, 1858 in Winnenden)
Gottlob Müller was the founder of the Methodist Church in Germany. According to the memorial plaque, he held the first Methodist service in this house in 1930.

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Life and work
Christoph Gottlob Müller was the son of a butcher from Winnenden near Stuttgart. He learned the butcher's trade from his father and then went on a journey. In order to avoid having to go to war with Napoleon's troops, he fled from Strasbourg to England in 1806. There he came into contact with the Methodist revival and holiness movement and joined the Methodist church there. He became a class leader, a kind of house group leader, and preached occasionally. In 1830 he visited his parents and brought Methodist Piety in pietistic groups in his former homeland.

Although he returned to his family, small groups that were close to the Methodist movement emerged in and around Winnenden. The Winnenden plumber Imanuel Strubel (1788–1856) soon asked the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in London to send Müller to Württemberg as a missionary. Due to a lack of knowledge, the missionary society initially hesitated, but then sent him in February 1831. In September of the same year, Müller's family followed from London.

Müller was initially close to the Moravian Brethren and spoke at their meetings, but then withdrew from the Moravian Brethren due to religious differences and held meetings in his parents' house, where he testified to his personal Christian faith. Many people joined, and so the movement spread. The Waiblingen district office was not comfortable with the influx of people to Müller, so he was questioned several times by the district administrator and in July 1832 the district government even revoked his residence permit, which was later revoked. In any case, Müller and his people did not come into serious conflict with the state church, because the visitors to his meetings continued to attend the state church services and had the sacraments, baptism and communion, administered by their pastors. Like John Wesley before him, Müller refused to separate from the state church. Instead, Müller tried to awaken spiritual life within the state church and also maintained a friendly relationship with the Winnenden city pastor Heim.

As early as 1835, Müller reported to London that his community in Winnenden had 326 members. At the end of 1839 there were 622 members and 64 employees who held 80 meetings a week. By 1848, the size of the Methodist community had grown to around 1,500 to 2,000 people. In that year, Müller largely gave up his missionary work due to asthma. Christoph Gottlob Müller died in 1858 and left behind "pietistic communities with a Methodist touch" (Lit.: quoted in Steckel, Sommer, p. 86) - according to his direct successor Lyth.

The movement (Wesleyan Methodist Community) gradually spread under Müller's successors John Lyth (1821-1886) and later John Barratt (1832-1892) - both of whom were ordained pastors of the British Methodist Church - to Baden, Bavaria, Austria, Bohemia and Upper Silesia. It was integrated into the Episcopal Methodist Church in 1897.

Source:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Gottlob_M%C3%BCller

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Ralf Bauder

December 1, 2024

The building has now been newly restored. At least the small shop on the ground floor used to have more flair.
"Walter" has posted some great pictures of the unrestored house with beautiful details.

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Rika123

April 1, 2025

.. in Winnenden, in the Rems-Murr district, Baden-Württemberg.
- Christoph Gottlob Müller was born on November 11, 1785, in Winnenden and died on March 17, 1858, also in Winnenden.
- He was the "first native speaker" to bring Methodism to Germany.
- During a stay in England, G. Müller became acquainted with this faith.

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Birthplace of Christoph Gottlob Müller

1. View of Bürg – ⭐️🐷 Winnenden Market Fountain loop from Winnenden

2. Winnenden Castle Church – Winnenden Old Town loop from Schelmenholz

3. Playground – Stream loop from Hungerberg

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