Do Hutterite teenagers go through a "rumnspringa" like the Amish do?

Question

I would imagine that they might go through a similar phase, because they live a sheltered life, especially thr girls who are basically covered from head to toe. I'm not saying anything against Hutterites. Does anybody know Hutterites on a personal level?

Answer 1

no they do not, but hutts are free to leave the colony whenever they want, i'm not sure if they'll be allowed to return though.

Answer 2

I have never heard of this from Hutterites though related and from the same part of the World Amish are Mennonites which is different. Hutterites live as a family unit but eat communually.

Answer 3

Hutterites are a communal branch of Anabaptists who, like the Amish and Mennonites, trace their roots to the Radical Reformation of the 16th century.

Hutterites practice total community of goods: all property is owned by the church, and provisions for individual members and their families come from the common resources. This practice is based largely on Hutterite interpretation of passages in chapters 2, 4, and 5 of Acts, which speak of the believers "having all things in common".

Hutterite communities, called "colonies", are all rural; many depend largely on farming for their income. Often, they own large tracts of land and use top-of-the-line farm implements. Some also run state-of-the-art hog, chicken, or turkey barns. Some Hutterites have ventured into the manufacturing sector. Hutterite colonies are generally male-dominated with women removed from the communal decision-making process.

Each colony consists of ten to twenty families, with a population of 60–150. Approximately half of a colony's members are chosen (usually by lot) to "branch off" and form a new colony, when the colony's leadership determines that branching off is economically and spiritually viable. Although Hutterites attempt to remove themselves from the outside world, many Hutterite homes have computers and radios; a minority of communities (mostly, liberal Schmiedleut colonies) have some sort of filtered Internet access. Traditionally, Hutterite children leave school at 15 years of age to fulfill their adult roles in the colony. This practice is still strictly maintained by the Lehrerleut and most of the Dariusleut colonies. However, some young Hutterites, especially among the Schmiedeleut in Manitoba, have graduated from high school and have gone on to attend university; many become teachers for their colonies. Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba, offers a Hutterite Education Program (BUHEP) to Hutterite high-school graduates for a portion of the Schmiedeleut.

Just as the Amish and Mennonites often use Pennsylvania German, the Hutterites have preserved a distinct dialect of German known as Hutterite German.

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History
Originating in the Austrian province of Tyrol, the forerunners of the Hutterites migrated to Moravia to escape persecution. There, under the leadership of Jakob Hutter, they developed the communal form of living based on the New Testament books of the Acts of the Apostles (Chapters 2 (especially Verse 44), 4, and 5) and 2 Corinthians—that distinguishes them from other Anabaptists. The Anabaptists tend to base their lives more on the first three gospels in the New Testament.


Bill of impeachmentIn Bohemia, the Hutterites flourished for over a century, until renewed persecution forced them once again to migrate, first to Transylvania, and, then, in the early 18th century, to the Ukraine, in the Russian Empire. Some Hutterites converted to Catholicism and retained a separate ethnic identity in Slovakia as the Habaner through the 19th century. By the end of World War II, this group had become essentially extinct. In the Ukraine, the Hutterites enjoyed relative prosperity, although their distinctive communal life was suppressed by the influence of the neighboring Mennonites.

The final great migration occurred as three waves of Hutterite emigrants left for the New World in the 19th century, in response to demands by the Russian authorities that the Hutterites participate in military service.

Named for the leaders of each wave, all three of the three groupings (the Schmiedeleut, Dariusleut, and Lehrerleut, leut being based on the German word for people) settled initially in the Dakota Territory; later, two Dariusleut colonies were established in central Montana. Here, each group reestablished the traditional Hutterite communal lifestyle. For a few years in the early 1950s, and in 1974–1990, the Arnoldleut (or Bruderhof Communities) were recognized as Hutterites. Although most Hutterites live in the Midwestern United States and in Canada, Hutterite colonies have been established in Nigeria and Japan.


New colonyDuring World War I, the pacifist Hutterites suffered persecution in the United States, resulting in the emigration of 17 of the 18 existing American colonies to the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. In one notable incident, four Hutterite men were imprisoned and, ultimately, two died from mistreatment.[1] With the passage of laws protecting conscientious objectors, however, some of the Schmiedeleut ultimately returned to the Dakotas, beginning in the 1930s.

During World War II, the province of Alberta passed the Communal Properties Act, severely restricting the expansion of the Dariusleut and Lehrerleut colonies (the act was repealed in 1973, allowing Hutterites to purchase land). This act resulted in the establishment of a number of new colonies in British Columbia, Montana, Saskatchewan, and eastern Washington in the 1940s and 1950s. Today, approximately one of every four Hutterite colonies is in the United States, with almost all of the remainder in Canada.

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Colonies
The mid-2004 location and number of the world's 472 Hutterite colonies:[2]

Canada (347)
Dariusleut (142): Alberta (109); Saskatchewan (31); British Columbia (2)
Schmiedeleut (106): Manitoba (105); Alberta (1)
Lehrerleut (99): Alberta (69); Saskatchewan (30)
United States (124)
Schmiedeleut (69): South Dakota (53); Minnesota (9); North Dakota (7)
Lehrerleut (34): Montana (34)
Dariusleut (21): Montana (15); Washington (5); Oregon (1)
Japan (1)
Dariusleut (1)
The Japanese Hutterite community does not consist of Hutterites of European descent, but ethnic Japanese who have adopted the same way of life and are recognized as an official colony. The inhabitants of this colony speak neither English nor German.

In similar fashion, a "neo-" Hutterite group was founded in Germany in 1920, called the Bruderhof, by Eberhard Arnold. Arnold had forged links with the North American Hutterites in the 1930s, continuing until 1990 when the Bruderhof were excommunicated due to a number of religious and social differences.