Stuttgart

In 1920 the Star of the West printed the first detailed report from the small German Bahá'í community of Stuttgart and Esslingen — the first solidly established Bahá'í community on the European continent, gathered around the work of Frau Alma Knobloch and the remarkable Esslingen schoolteacher Albert Schwarz.

A short paraphrase from the Baha'i Stories Blog about a letter Shoghi Effendi sent in the late 1930s to the small Bahá'í community of Germany, then under increasing harassment from the National Socialist regime — a brief message of love, encouragement to steadfastness, and assurance that the prayers of the world's believers were with them.