The article deals with a repressed chapter of Austrian Church Law History, namely the Free Churches which come into the picture in the 19th century and whose missionary work was susceptible to severe restrictions at the time of the Habsburg Monarchy. The positivistic legal culture focuses on the legal recognition of the denominations. Partly, this was refused by the Free Churches themselves, partly it was withheld from them because they were supposed to jeopardise interconfessional peace. After the Evangelical Alliance had intervened, the evangelical Reformed Free Church in Bohemia (today Brüderkirche) seceded and was established in 1880 along the lines of the Scottish Free Church. This article deals with the further developrnent until full legal recognition which took place in 2013.
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