Founded by Lutheran staff from the Cooper Creek area of South Australia (who also established the Elim Aboriginal mission in Queensland), it became a stable community with the assignment of two young Neuendettelsau missionaries (George Schwarz and Wilhelm Poland).
He was strongly influenced by missionary minded pastor Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe of Neuendettelsau, Bavaria.
He transferred through a series of parishes before settling in the village of Neuendettelsau, Bavaria (about 30 km from Fürth) in 1837 after failing to gain an assignment in an urban setting.
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From the small town of Neuendettelsau, he sent pastors to North America, Australia, New Guinea, Brazil, and the Ukraine.
Born in Diebach, Germany, Reu attended mission institute founded by Wilhelm Loehe in Neuendettelsau.
the seminary of American missionaries at Neuendettelsau (see. Wilhelm Löhe), and a third edition appeared at Nördlingen, 1870.
In overseas these communities maintained strong ties to the homeland, continued to speak German over generations, and developed extensive education and mission programs such as that offered at the seminary in Neuendettelsau, in Franconia.
The following communities surround Windsbach (beginning north going clockwise direction): Rohr, Kammerstein, Abenberg, Spalt, Mitteleschenbach, Wolframs-Eschenbach, Lichtenau, Neuendettelsau and Heilsbronn.
In 1900 the Neuendettelsau Mission Society imported cattle from Australia to the mission stations at Malahang and Finchaven however Tick fever caused many losses.