The Salzburgers

[Marker's East face]:

To the Memory of the

Salzburgers

and

their faithful pastors.

Rev. John Martin Bolzius

and

Rev. Israel Christain Gronau

who for their faith in the doctrines

of Gods Word as taught

in the Augsburg confession

were banished from their

homes in Austria, and settled

in Effingham Co. Geo. in 1734

Heb. 11 36-38.

[Marker's West face]:

In Memory of

Rev. Herman H. Lembke

and

Rev Christian Rabenhorst

successors to pastors Bolzius

and Gronau during whose

charge the present church

edifice was erected.

The memory of the just is blest.

Marker is on Ebenezer Road (Georgia Route 275), on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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