New Wells is an unincorporated community in northern Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States.

[4] Austrian settlers referred to the community as Neu Wels, after the city in Austria, which was later Americanized to New Wells.

Members of the New York group violently opposed this move, which was proposed because of the failure of Wittenberg to grow as fast as had been hoped.

Walther continued to serve both Dresden and Johannisberg until the end of 1841, but after his departure for St. Louis both were made branches of Altenburg.

In 1852, fresh settlers arrived from Austria, and these for a while continued to attend church at Altenburg in Perry County.