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Kaltzbach / Bess

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 56-57

Kaltschinowka / Bel

• List of Early Colonists - Karl Stumpp, The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 to 1862 p. 862

Kampenau / Gr

• List of Early Colonists - Karl Stumpp, The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 to 1862 p. 786

Kamtschatka  Bess.

• 1893 German-Russians leased the land
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 167-168
• Later, a portion of land was purchased... date not givien

Kandel / Od

Kankrin Estate

• 1812 Count Kankrin was given 28,000 desiatians of land ,  p. 59  - The Russian Annexation of Bessarabia 1774-1828 by  Georg F. Jewsbury

Kapitanke Chutor / ____

• Families mentioned in Freudental / Od. Death Records (R. Wiseman)
  • Katharina Ochsner m. Philipp Schwarz  Issue:
    • Rosalie Schwarz b. 1883 Chutor Kapitanke d. 20 July 1884  Lichtenfeld [Freudental Death Rec.] #1895617-1-894-6 died at the age of 1 year 1 month 15 days
    • See Ochsner Family Home Site
    • See Ochsner Chutors

Karlsruhe / Od

• Letters Describing the Conditions of the German Colonies During the Early Bolshevik Years, North Dakota, Dickenson, ND - translated by Roland Wagner

Kasarwaka / ____

• Families in death records of Freudental / Od
  • Jacober

Kassel / Od

Katharinenfeld / Kau , Georgia

• * Schweikert [Schweigert] ancestors who settled in this colony were:  Heusel,  Kraenzler, Rehberger, and Volger
• Founded abt 1818 by Germans from Wuerttembergs,  a few, however, were from Switzerland.
•  All were Evangelical Lutherans
• Map

Katharinental / Od

• Letters Describing the Conditions of the German Colonies During the Early Bolshevik Years, North Dakota, Dickenson, ND - translated by Roland Wagner

Katlebug / Bess

• Leased land ....
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 168

Katzbach / Bess

 Kaukasus = Caucasus, Georgia, Russia

Ketrossy / Bess.

• I911 Andreas Necker an Wilhelm Weinert purchased 1,165 desjatines (3,137.9 acres), known as the Ketrossy Estate from K. Balios.   Land was then sold to German-Russians. Necker held on to 300 desjatines and Weinert kept 200 desjatines. Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 114-115

Kher. = Kherson = Cherson District's German Colonies:

• Alexanderhilf
• Franzfeld
• Freudental
• Grossliebental
• Gueldendorf
• Helenental
• Josefstal
• Klein-Liebental
• Lustdorf
• Mariental
• Neuburg
• Neu-Freudental
• Peterstal

Kherson, City of

• Prince Potemkin, lover of Catherine II "The Great", founded the town in 1778
• In 1912 the fares for boat to Odessa was 3 rubles and 95 copeks and it took 10 hours....  Town on right bank of Dnieper River
• 1912 had Roman Colathoic and Lutheran Churches

Kidoste / Kau

Kisil / Bess.

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 73-74
• B

Kirschwald / Gr

Kischinev [akn: Kishinev, Kishineff, Kischinow/ Chinshinou] / Bess.

• *  Hein family lived in Kischinev after escaping the fires of Moscow of 1812 when Napoleon held the city for a short time
• Kischinev or  Kishinev (Kishla Noue = sheep- fold) Founded in 1420 and part of Moldavia. In 1812 it became part of Russia.  7,000 lived there at the time. In 1918 it became part of Rumania. 1940 it once again became part of Russia  [USSA]
• The  city (town)  held 600 German  Lutheran soliders from the Batlic Sea under Tsar Alexander I in 1812.  The first Lutheran church estatblished was in 1827. Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 108-110

Kison Estate

• See Gnadenheim / Bess.

Kitschook? Cutor /_____

• Families in death records of Freudental / Od
  • Diebert
  • Delzer
  • Enzi

Kleinliebental  [Klein-Liebental] / Od

Klein - Werder

Kloestitz / Bessarabia

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 120 - 122 & 128-130.
• B
• Note:  Many villagers from Borodino / Bess. were married in  Kloestitz Luterhan Church years before their own villages built their churches. Two of them were Christina Schweikert  who m. Ludwig Hein in Kloetitz in 1905 by Rev. Julius Nikolaus Peters

Klosterdorf

Kolatschowka  / Bess.

• Russian name of Colocynth
• Founded in 1908
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 139-140

Kolitowka Chutor / ___

• Families mentioned in Freudental / Od. Death Records (R. Wiseman)
  • Johan Ochsner b. March 1852 Worms / Od. S. Russia [#1883185 1 409 4], son of Nikolaus Ochsner and Ana Maria Weist,  and Christine Benz [Beng]  Issue:
    • Rosalie Ochsner b. 1884  Kolitowka Chutor d. 21 July 1885 Lichtenfeld [Freudental Death Rec.] #1897695-1-916-7 was 1 year old at death, dau. of Johan Ochsner and Chrsitine Benz [Beng]
  • See Ochsner Chutors

Kopeka [Kopeika] Chutor [near Bergdorf / Od ?]

• Rott Family Note: Friederika  Rott b. 12 Apr 1850 Glueckstal , sister of Johanna, nee Rott, Hoffer, m.  (1) 13 Feb 1868 to  Jacob Guthmueller, the younger. m. (2) Heinrich Wolf of Bergdorf was b. 6 June 1860 Chutor Kopeka, son of Heinrich Wolf and Rosina Jundt, grandson of Mathais Wolf b. 6 Oct 1800 Rountzenheim, Alsace and Johanna Maier b. 26 Aug 1801
• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births Records 186X (D. Wahl)
  • Maeule

Korntal I / Bess.

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern pps. 103-104.
•  Also known as Kantemir so named after the previous owner Count D. Kantemir of  Moldavia and was the official name.

Kostheim / Tau

Kowatsch Chutor / _____

• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births and Marriages, 1833-1900 (H. Ehrman)
  • Mehlhaf
  • Doerr

Krim - Krimea,  see Crimea

Krontal II

• The heirs of Countess Mayronni-Akkordalti, who was given 13,585 acres by Tsar  Alexander I, sold their land to half brothers Andreas Bodamer and Philipp Schmidt. Bodamer bought more land.... Schmidt bought more land  from a Bularian known as Jorgatchov......
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern p. 104

Krakanat Chutor / ____

• Families Listed in Glueckstal Deaths, 1833-1885 (E. Ehrman):
  • Flemmer

Krasna / Bess

Kreschatten

Kroll Estates

• The area known as Kroll Estate was purchased from Countess Tolstoy by Christian Kroll from Alt Posttal / Bess.   He, also, purchased land from the Skriwonowka Estate in the Bender District, and  Walerianowka Estate near Neu Arzis. In 1910 he continue to purchase: Orak Estate in Kahul Dist....1911 Gretscheni Estate in Kahul Dist. .
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 96-97

Kronental / Kr

Kronsdorf / Gr

Kronsfeld / Tau

Kronsgarten / Dnj

Kulm [Culm] / Bess

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 135-137
• Known as  the "Colony on top of the hill"

Kulm  Parish / Bess.

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 135- 137

Kurudschika / Bess. also known as Guensburgdorf [Guensburg Chutor] Photographs Listed & More details

• Tsar Alexander I and the Turkish Sultan Selim III signed the Peace Treaty of Bucharest on 16 May 1812, present was Anton Fouton an advisor to General Ivan Sabanejew.  He recieved 5,000 desjatines  (12,350 acres)...
• Later owned by Lt. Bernadacki and citizen Guensburg
  • Renamed Guensburgdorf  
• B
  • Motz from Borodino is listed
• 1864 two Bulgarins Peter and Andrei Maradsch leased the estate
• Later leased by three colonists from Leipzig / Bess:
  • Daniel Buchwitz
  • Johann Mann
  • Ludwig Jeschke
  • 30 others leased  the land  was included in the  10 year lease agreement
• 1883 - The estate was inhierited by Count Hatzfeld-Trachtenberg, dau. of Count Manuk-Bey....  Later she would seel some of  her land to those leasing her land as well as domate some for school, cemetry and church....
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 140-141

Kutschurganer District's German Colonies:

• Baden
• Elsass  [Alsace]
• Kandel
• Mannheim
• Selz
• Strassburg

L

Lambrowka Estate / Bes

• See Hoffmann Estates. Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p131 has additional information under Philoppowka / Bess.
• 1917 a Jewish village was established on the old Hoffmann estate which had been taken by the Bolsheviks then fell under the new govt. of Rumania.

Lamfinack [Lambkin's Field] Chutor / ?

• Philip Roemmich  and his wife are listed as living at this chutor in the Odessa newspaper dated:  24 July 1913

Landau / Od

Leipzig / Bess

• Land was owned by General Subanajew and the cabinet advisor  known as Chanov  who broke the land into 60 desjantines...  Not recorded if they purchased the land later.....
• 1814 - Officially  Established
  • 128 families
• *  See Hoeger/ Hager/Heger Families  and  Harlose Family
• King Ferdinand I Hohenzollern  and his Queen visited Leipzig  in 1920
• Parish ....Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 137-138
• Village ....Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 141-142
• Railroad was complete here 1913-1915...  Here is where the soldiers boarded the train to go to war....
• Photograph #1 from Alfred Hein Collection
• Photograph #2 from Alfred Hein Collection
• See additional information

Lelijowci Chutor / ____

• Families recorded in Rohrbach Death Records 188X (D. Wahl)
  • Katharina Rennick b. Lelijowci d. 17 Nov 1884 Waterloo [2 months 23 days old at death], dau. of Peter Rennick

Leitershausen / Tau

Leowa / Bess.

• Not a German village
• Held a German section
• Village for craftman
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 158

Lichtental / Bess

• See story by Don Wolf [R-62=dawolf ] below [bottom of this page] plus photograph of Wolf home in Kirchberg an der Mur - 1776.

Ludwigstal / Gr

Lunga  / Bess.

• In 1907  17 German-Russians purchased  3,687.7 acres of land from Countess Rally 
•  Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 148
• B
  • Scgeffelmaier from Borodino was one

Lustdorf / Od

Luxemburg / Bess.

• Lidquidated land from Basyrjamka / Bess.
• 1929 resettled refugees after WW I

M

Malojarosavetz I / Bess.

• See Wittenburg / Bess.

Malojarosavetz II / Bess

• See Alt Posttal / Bess.

Maltscha Estate / Bess.

• In 1889 Gottfried Ensslen purchsed the Negrowo Estate.  His desc. migrated to Canada after fleeing in 1945 from the turmoil of the times.

Mannsburg / Bess

• Largest German-Russian colony of lower Bessarabia [?]
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps 169-170
• 1881  German-Russians purchased  7,410 acres from ____
• 1863 leased 12,350 acres of land from Baron von Guensburg....
• 1910 more land was purchased... 1,725 acres.....

Mannheim / Od

Mansyr / Bess.

• Eight German-Russians owned the land but no names are given
•  Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 148

Manuk-Bey Estate / Bess.

• See Kurudschika Estate
• Inherited by his daughter Countess Hatzfeld-Trachtenberg in 1883.  She was a Lutheran....
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 141
• See Ebenfeld / Bess.
• See Manukbejewka / Bess
• See Marienfeld / Bess

Manukbejewka / Bess.

• 1893  Several German-Russians  [names not given] leased 3,428 acres
• 1907 - German-Russians purchased from the Manuk-Bey family and created the village
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 158

Marau / Gr

Marienfeld / Bess

• Original name was Jalpuscheli Estate and  known also as Marienskoje
• Estate was purchased by Maria Manuk-Bey
• 6,298.5 acres
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 158-159
• B - 1911
  • Karl Fried
  • Karl Pippus
  • Gottlieb  Hess
  • Valentine Weippert
  • P. Weippert
  • J. Tetz
  • Chr. Weippert
  • G. Stickel
  • Others:
    • Should note: Johannes Sauter I and II from Kloestitz/ Bess. were part of the settlers.
• Found next to the Trajan Wall

Marienfeld / Kau

Marienfeld / Gr

Mariental / Bess.

• See Wittenburg / Bess
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 159-160.

Mariental / Od

Mariental/ Volga area

• Contact the VC Thelma Mills
  • E-mail:  timills@cgmailbox.com
  • Web Site:  http://www.webbitt.com/volga/mariental/

Mariewka / Bess.

• Owner of the estate was Countess Marie Radokonaki
•  Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 148-149
• 1908 colonists purchased sections of land to add to their wealth...
•  Orlov trotters were bred by some otf  the colonists, plus Caracul sheep and Holstein cattle...

Marino Estate / Bess.

Masarewitsch Estate / Bess.

• See Schabolat / Bess.

Mathildendorf parish / Bess.

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pp.s 145-146

Mathildendorf / Bess.

• 1858 - German-Russians  from Borodino / Bess.  purchased 4,693 acres from the Ginsburg estate
  • B
  • Motz was one name mentioned
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 145-146
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 149- 150
• Village was named after the former owner's daughter...  then renamed Olgowka after the dau. of Tsar Nicholas II... however, they continued to call the village Mathildendorf unoffically....

Matzke Chutor / ____

• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births Records 186X (D. Wahl)
  • Gimscj
  • Konerer

Mayer Estate

• See Sarazika Eckert / Bess.

Mayronni - Akkordalti Estate /Bess

• See Korntal II

Meck Estate, von  / Brailov, Bess.

• See book:Before the Revolution by Kyril FitzLyon and Tatiana Browing   300 photographs   Personal interest:  Page 88 is the 1890 photo of Karl von Meck's estate at Brailov / Bessarabia. Here, his widow, became patron of Tschalkovsky.  Show s a sugar [beet ] factory

Michaelsthal  Chutor / ___

• Families Listed in Glueckstal Deaths, 1833-1885 (E. Ehrman):
  • Bonnet
  • Dockter
  • German
  • Guthmiller
  • Kirschenmann
  • Landenberger
  • Mittleider
  • Schlepp
  • Werth
  • Will

Michaelsruhm / Bess.

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps.53-54
• Also known by the names of Alt-Elft and Champenoisse I

Minizny Chutor / ___

• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births and Marriages, 1833-1900 (H. Ehrman)
  • Guthmiller

Mischeny / Bess.

• Land was purchased from the Bulgarian-Russian village of Mischeny by Christian Verwied from Tarutino and Christoph Kuch from Brienne
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 160

Misker Chutor / _____

• Families in death records of Freudental / Od
  • Bauer

Mitschu  Estate

• 1890  Viktoria Mitschau sould 2,964 desjatines of land to the colonists of Neu Tarutino
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 151

Moscow

• 1812- Hein family had been visiting the Hahn family, who were  visiting cousins,  the Hahn family, when Napoleon marched into Moscow and Georg Hein b. 1807 recalled later to his grandson Ludwig Hein of Borodino / Bess. that he recalled seeing the city going up in flames...they migr. to Kischnev / Bess.

Muehlhausendorf

Muenchen / Od

Muruzowa Estate / Bess.

• See Demir Chadschi

N

Nadescha Estate and Village / Bess.

• See Eigenfeld / Bess.

Nasarov Estate

• See Glueckstal / Bess.

Nasarweka / Bess

• See Glueckstal / Bess.

Negrowo Ensslen Estate / Bess.

Nesselrode Estate

• 1812 Count Nesselbrode was given 10,000 desiatians of land  in Bessarabia by a grant, p. 59 The Russian Annexation of Bessarabia 1774-1828 by  Georg F. Jewsbury

Netusch Estate

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 49, see Netusche Weilert Village

Netusche Weiler / Bess.

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 49 was earlier the Netusch Estate

Neu-Alexandrowka / Bess.

• Land from the estates of Figuera and de Allmaida in 1911.
•  Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps 74-75

Neu-Annowka / Bess.

• 1897- German-Russian farmers leasefrom G. and Chr. Damaschke and Ludwig Steinwandt.
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern p. 105

Neu - Arzis / Bess

Neu-Borodino / Bess

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps 130-131.are mentioned in the chronicles of this village.

Neuburg / Od

Neu Dennewitz / Bess

•  Land purchsed from Schlinger-Sponer, a French nobelman
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 49-50.

Neudorf / Od

• *

Neudorf / Gr

Neudorf / Tau

Neu-Elft / Bess

• It was created by dividing Alt Elft in half.
• Was known also as Fere Champenoise II
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps 57-59.

Neufall / Bess

• Translation is from the term "neues Gefaelle" referring to the slope of the land to the shore of the Black Sea...
• 1867 leased and/or purchased the land
  • Friedrich Ziemann family purchased their land...
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 170

Neu-Friedenstal / Bess.

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 91

Neu-Hoffnungstal  [Neuhoffnungstal]/ Bedj

Neu-Josefsdorf / Bess.

• 1923
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 150

Neu-Mariewka / Bess.

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps 150-151

Neu-Mathildendorf

• 1907 Land was purchased from Count Rally by Adam Ernst, Mr. Bippus and Karl Haas
• Called the settlement Olgowka after Nicholas II's elder daughter
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 151

Neu-Montal / Tau

Neu-Nassau / Tau

Neu-Nikolajewka / Bess

• In 1889 German-Russians purchased land from the Russian magnate Nikolajew.
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 115

Neu-Odessa / Bess

• Dimitri Dianow and the Greek Orhodox Priest J. Wartotschan of Wolontirowka leased land to the German-Russian settlers in 1879.
• In 1927 it was annexed to Eigenfeld.....
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern pps 105-106

Neu-Oneschti / Bess

• German-Russians leased land from ____  and established their village in 1879.
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 116

Neu- Paris

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 59

Neu-Posttal / Bess.

• Gottfried Schulz purchased the land abt 1864 for a German settlement...
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps 170-172

Neu-Sarata

• Parish of  Neu Sarata
  • Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 153
• German-Russian Village of  Neu Sarata
• Bank took the title of ownership from a Greek named Alexander Exarch and was purchase by Johann Seefried of Jargara Estate / Bess. which was 6,010.7 acres of land... which he or his community divided into 48.5 homesteads of 123.5 acres each

Neu-Seimeny / Bess.

• Known, also, as Dox.
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 75

Neu-Strymba / Bess

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 116-117

Neu-Stuttgart / Berdj

Neu-Tiflis / Kau

Neu-Tarutino / Bess.

• Leased  church lands from Pastor  Pinquoud which was voided by Past Schlarb
• Leased land from the heirs of Count Hrubschia
• 1890 - Purchased land from the heiress Viktoria Mitschu some 1,200 acres
• 1919 -Bolsvhviks liquidated the land...
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 152

Nikolajew Estate / Bess.

• See Neu-Nikolajewka / Bess.

NSib =  North Siberia

Nusstal / Bess.

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 50

O

Ochsner Chutor  I / Od

• *
• North of Roemmich Chutor IV and near Adamowka (Esslinger),  Stumpp map of  Odessa area, D-3

Ochsner Chutor II / Od

• *
• North of Ochsner Chutor I and east of Troizkoje and est of Domanewka,  Stumpp map of  Odessa area, D-3

Ochsner Chutor III / Od

• *
• East of Ljachowo and N. Rastatt , west of Bug River.  Also knwon as Kamenaja.  Stumpp map of  Odessa area,  F-4

Ochsner Chutor IV / Od.

• *
• Between Konstantinowka on the Bug River  and Bratskoje on the Mertwowod River. Also known as Nowosjolowka or is right next to this place...  
• Stumpp map of  Odessa area, E-2

Od. = Odessa or Odesa

Olgowka / Bess.

• There were many villagers who had wanted to name their Village after Tsar Nicholas II's elder daughter Olga but most of them took up different names officially.  
  • See Mathildendorf / Bess.
  • See Neu Mathildendorf / Bess.  
  • others.....

Oloneschti / Bess.

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p.75

Orak Estate, Kahul Dist./ Bess.

• Purchased in 1910 by Christian Kroll.  
• See Kroll Estates.
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 96

Osinsky Chutor / ___

• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births Records 186X (D. Wahl)
  • Becker
• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births Records 186X (D. Wahl)
  • Reich
  • Zintler

P

Paladi  Estate /Bess.

• the Paladi were a prominent Romanian family gained land grants in 1812
• data found p. 58 THE RUSSIAN ANNEXAION OF BESSARABIA 1774-1828 by Georg F. Jewsburg

Parapara / Bess.

• Lands purchasesd from the Countess Tolstoy.
• It is known that King Ferdinand, Count Gottried von Hohenlohe-Langenburg, use to hunt ducks here.
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 91-92

Paris / Bess

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 59-61.
• It was known also as Alecksuesswerth [Aleck Suess Werth].

Parusch Estate/ Bess

• See Pauschowka / Bess.

Paruschowka / Bess.

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 50.  Land was purchsed from Parusch family in 1921

Pastororal Lands - See Church Properties

Pawlowka / Bess.

• 1880 - Land  (2,173.6 acres) was purchased from J. Herschamnn

Petersdorf / Kau

Peterstal  / Bess.

• Estate was owned by Lieutenant Bernadotti and citizen Guensburg who leased their land to the Bulgarians Andrei and Peter Karadsche-Iskow who in turned subleased the land to  many German-Russians.
• 1883 the land owners sons' , Pale and Wassili.....  inherited the land then leased the land

Peterstal / Od

Pharaonowka / Bess.

• Leased land from ____

Philoppowka / Bess.

• 1914  part of the Hoffmann"s Lambrowka Estate (370.5 acres) was resettled with German-Russians farmers....
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 131

Pitkoland? Chutor / _____

• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births and Marriages, 1833-1900 (H. Ehrman)
  • Himmerich

Plotzk / Bess

John and Juliana Schweitz, great granparents of Fred Schweitz, the VC for Plotzk.  His E-mail is:  Fredsbike@aol.com See photogrpah of August Quast and his buggy and dog from Fred Schweitz.

• The village was original known as Daguli. Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern,  pps. 61-62

Prischib / Tau

Pomasan / Bess.

• 1910  - Gottfried and August Schulz purchased Count Tolstoi's estate and divided for sale to other German-Russians.   Additional lands was bought from neighboring villlages.
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 92.

Popsadru  / Bess.

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 173

Pototzkaya Estate

• Owned by Countess Pototzkaja
• 3,000 desjatin 9abt 8,194 acres)
• Purchased by Johann Gottlieb Gerstenberg b. 3 Jan 1823 from Beresina / Bess.
  • German-Russian elected to the Duma were:
    • Johann Gerstenberger elected to the Russia Duma 1905  (served to times) 
      • son was Johann Gerstenberger b. 20 June 1862 See story in Bessarabia Newsletter, Vol. 3, Isue 2, p. 18
        • elected twice to the Rumanin parliament
        • Des. of  Beresina Colonist in 1815
        • Bought the estate of Countess Pototzkaja in the Taumuerer Valley n. Kloestitz / Bess.

Posttal / Bess

• Parish of Posttal
  • Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps 163-164

R

Radokonaki Estate / Bess.

• See  Mariewka Estate / Bess.

Rally Estate

• See  Mathildendorf  / Bess
• See Neu-Mathildendorf / Bess.

Raskajetz / Bess.

• B
• Jakob Haerter from Borodino / Bess.  was one of the early German colonists..
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 75-76

Rastadt / Od

• Letters Describing the Conditions of the German Colonies During the Early Bolshevik Years, North Dakota, Dickenson, ND - translated by Roland Wagner
• A Visit in 1999: http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/gerrus/journey/crawford.html

Reichenberg / Gr

Reichenfeld / Tau

Reimann Chutor [Estate] / Bess.

• Nathanael Reimann purchased 988 acres of land from the Demidow Estate
• See Balabanka Estate  Bess
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 173
• Purchased land from Daschkow Family....
• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births and Marriages, 1833-1900 (H. Ehrman)
  • Jakob Schauer
    • dau. Louisa d. 10 March 1870

Remann Chutor....See Reimann Chutor [Estate]

Reni / North Kau

Reni / Bess [A town]

• Town where many of the German-Russian emigrants ended their boat journey down the Danube [Danu] River and from here were taken into quarantine before they ventured to their new homes in Russia
• Where the Pruth and the Danube River meet
• Town of Galatz was to the west on the Danube River where others stopped their journey down the Danube and were taken to quarantine before going on to their new homes in "New Russia"  [Bess. or Kherson by Odessa]

Renz Estates

• See Demir Chadschi Estate / Bess. and Gutheim/Bess.
• See  Tschiligider / Bess.

Reulingen / Bess.

• German-Russians were a small community in the larger Russian [Moldavian] community
• It was a village that dealt in crafsmen and families held very little land if any
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 152

Riebensdorf

Rischkan Estates / Bess.

• Rischkan owned the most land in northern Bess. .  See Ryschkanowka.

Rischkanowka / Bess.

• I865 German-Russians purchased land from Georg Rishkan

Roduner-Gassert Estates / Bess

• Lands, 1,235 acres)  were purchased from the Demidow family by Gottlieb Gasssert
• One of the heirs, Eduward Roduner held more than lands
  • Hotels in Akkerman
  • Hotel in St. Petersburg  [renamed Hotel Bucharest] ...
  • Helped expan the spa at Budaki....
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps 173-174

ROEMMICH [Remmick] CHUTORS [Estates]

Roemmich Family Web Site

Roemmich Chutor I / Od.

• *
• Roemmich Chutors Also Known as:Kalagiea. which is just north  of  Worms/ Od., Stumpp map of  Odessa area, E-4 & 5 line . Map

Roemmich Chutor II / Od.

• *
• Found north north west of Worms/ Od , near Nikolajevka II and Tschitschigleja River,  Stumpp map of  Odessa area, D-4. Map

Roemmich Chutor III / Od.

• *
• Also known as Johannesfeld. South of Worms/ Od. near N. Rohrbach,  Stumpp map of  Odessa area, D-6. Map

Roemmich Chutor IV / Od.

• *
• Also known as Burkuny n. N. Rohrbach / Od., south of Worms/ Od and directly west from Roemmich Chutor II,  Stumpp map of  Odessa area, D-6. Map

Roemmich Chutor V / Od.

• *
• Found north north of Worms n. Frank/Od, and between Russian towns of Wradijewka and Konstantinowka,  Stumpp map of  Odessa area, D-2. Map

Roemmich Chutor VI

• *
• North of Roemmich Chutor V by the Kodyma River, south of Perwomaisk.  Directly west was Kriwoje Osero,   Stumpp map of  Odessa area, D-2. Map

Roemmich Chutor VII

• *
• Also known as Sarawnoje which was farther west than the other Roemmich Chutors.
• Near Grekowa and west of Ananjew.. North, north west  was Baltra.  Stumpp map of  Odessa area, B-3. Map

Roemmich Chutor VIII / Bess.

• *
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pp. 108 in the Kischnev District.

Roemmich Chutor IX /Od.?

• Lamfinack [Lambkin's Field] Chutor / ?Odessa
  • Philip Roemmich  and his wife are listed as living at this chutor in the Odessa newspaper dated:  24 July 1913

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Rohrbach / Bess

• Leased community.  The owner was ______
• Also known as Romanowo / Bess which I assume it means it belonged to Countess Tolstoy.  See Romanowka
• Translated means  "Reed Creek"....
• 1887 established

Rohrbach / Od

Romanowka / Bender , Bess.

• In 1893 German-Russian settlers purchased land  (3, 685 acres) from Countess Tolstoy. Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps 76-77
• See Rohrbach / Bess.

Romanowka / Akkerman / Bess.

• Estate owner was G. Gemeschlie
• German community...
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 145

Romansdorf / near Kiev, Ukraine

• See the following web site: http://www.cba.hawaii.edu/remus/genes/

Rosenberg / Gr

Rosenfeld / Berdj

Rosengarten / Gr

Rosental /Kr

Rosetti Estate /Bess.

• the Rosetti were a prominent Romanian family gained land grants in 1812
• data found p. 58 THE RUSSIAN ANNEXAION OF BESSARABIA 1774-1828 by Georg F. Jewsburg

Russ. = Russia

Russow Estate/ Bess.

• See Blumental / Bess.
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 138

Rundewies

Ryschkanowka / Bess.

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 117-118.  See Rischkanowka.

S

Sabaneev Estate

• 1812 General I.V. Sabaneev was given a land grant for 10,000 desiatians of land in Bessarabia, p. 59 The Russian Annexation of Bessarabia 1774-1828 by  Georg F. Jewsbury

Sabuloki Chutor / _____

• Families in death records of Freudental / Od
  • Kraft

Sahorje Chutor / _____

• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births and Marriages, 1833-1900 (H. Ehrman)
  • Hochhalter
  • Steinwand

Sangerowka / Bess.

• Land wasleased in  1898 by German-Russians settlers....
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p/ 174

Sarata / Bess

Sarazika [Hamlet of ] Eckert

• 1898 - Land was purchassed from Countess Tolstoy by Gottlob Eckert.This estate  of  830 desjatines (2,050 Acres) was divided among his four children: (1)  Jacob Eckert; (2) Wilhelm Eckert; (3) Barbara who m. Christian Hahn;  (4) Anna Maria Eckert who m. Joh. Mayer. When Wilhlem sold his section of land he sold part of  it to his brother-in-law and nephews : E. Eckert, A. Eckert and J. Schreiber from Lichtental.....
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 106.

Schabo / Bess

• 1894 -  German-Russians founded this settlement right across the street from the village of Schabo...
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 175

Schabolat / Bess.

• Land was leased from Chulitsch of Sahabolat and Masarewitsch
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 175

Schelebowka Chutor / ____

• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births and Marriages, 1833-1900 (H. Ehrman)
  • Mehlaf
  • Braun?

Schemuchle Chutor / Bess.

• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births and Marriages, 1833-1900 (H. Ehrman)
  • Kraminsky
  • Kraminsky m. Mueller fr. Cassel, a child died in Kosinka

Schepucha Chutor / ____

• Families in death records of Freudental / Od
  • Grotz

Scherebka Chutor / ____

• Families in death records of Freudental / Od
  • Munsch

Schlangendorf

Schlinger-Sponer Estate / Bess.

• Estate beloned to a French nobelman according to Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 49,
• was purchased in 1912 and became known as Neu-Dennewitz/ Bess.

.

Schimke Estate / Bess.

• (1) In 1909 Gottlieb Schimke from Paris / Bess.  purchased land from Gottlieb Schulz, an early colonists of  Alt-Posttal / Bess.. Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 71
• (2) J. Schimke owned a small part of  Sarazika Eckert Estate. Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 106

Schmidt Estate / Bess

• See Korntal II / Bess.

Schoenbaum / Gr

Scholtoi / Bess.

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 118-119

Schreiber Estate

• See Sarazika Eckert / Bess.

Schulz Estate / Bess.

• In 1909 Gottlieb Schimke from Paris / Bess.  purchased land from Gottlieb Schulz, an early colonists of  Alt-Posttal / Bess..
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 71
• See Schulzenheim Estate / Bess.

Schulzenheim  Estate / Bess.

• 1908 Gottfired Schulz purchased the estate from Field Marshal Tomatschinsky of Akkermannwho estate was known as Staraja Basyrjamka

Seefried Estate

• See Jargara Estate

Selz / Od

Seimeny / Bess.

• Is of historical  interest before the German-Russians.  Here is where Emperor Trajan of Rome (98 BC-117 AD) defeated Dacia in 107 AD and consripted the bulding of the "Trajan Wall".... Roman soldiers patroled the wall...
• Much later in history Duke Wolkonsky owned the estate of Seimeny.  When the Duke ed to Siberia and fell from favor  it bcame part of General Marino's Estate.
• Later, the mother of Wolkonsky  purchased 7,686 acres from General Marino the estate of Seimeny where her son remained under protective custody until his ammesty under Tssar Alexander III ....
•  In 1867 Count Wolkonsky leased out 7,410 acres of his estate to German-Russians....
• In 1894 the land was purchased by Gottfried Schulz....
•  Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 77-78

Semsotka Estate

• Semsotka means 700, which refers to the size which was 700 desjatines (1,729 acres).
• See Gnadenheim / Bess.

Simferopol / Kr

Singer-Gut [Estate] / Bess.

• In 1902-1903, two  brothers, Balthasar and Karl Singer,  from Hoffnungstal purchased  360 desjatines (889 acres) from ____. Later Karl gave his daughter 60 desjahe and the  rest to his brother and mmigr. to Siberia....
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 120 

Sofiental / Bess

• 1863 German-Russians leased land from a Russian estate of Carpenko
• 1898 - Gottfriend Schulz purchased the land along with others
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 177

Sofiewka  [Sofijewka] / Bess.

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 51.  land purchased from family of Aswadurow of Akkermann.
• Note:  Village was named after the first girl , Sophia, who was born in this colony.
• 
• Roedel family  from Beresina / Bess lived in this village and later migrated to Dobrudscha.....

Speier / Od

Sponer Estate / Bess.

• See Schlinger-Spondesr Estate/ Bess.

Stanolewitsch [Stanolowitsch] Chutor/ _____

• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births and Marriages, 1833-1900 (H. Ehrman)
  • Hauck
  • Lang
  • Lehr [mother was a Lang]
• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births Records 186X (D. Wahl)
  • Lang
  • Drewe
  • Hochhalter
  • Lang m. Mayer
  • Vielhauer m. Hochhalter

Staraja Basyrjamka Estate / Bess.

• Owned by Field Marschal Tomatschinsky of Akkermann until 1908 when Gottlieb Schulz purchased the land
• See Schulzenheim Estate / Bess.

Stawnit___ / Chutor

• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births Records 186X (D. Wahl)
  • Mehlhaf

Steinbach Estate,  [Black Sea ]

• Manor on the Molotschnaja, owner Jakob Dyck
• Noted In an old book, title unknown

Strahl[ers] Chutor / ____  [See Stralaus Chutor]

• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births and Marriages, 1833-1900 (H. Ehrman)
  • Jesser
  • Martel
  • Laitenbergerer
  • Obenauer m. Ketterling fr. Bergdof /Od

Stralaus Chutor / ____ [See Strahl Chutor]

• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births and Marriages, 1833-1900 (H. Ehrman)
  • Laitenberger m. Jesser

Strassburg / Od

Strojano Chutor / ____

• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births Records 186X (D. Wahl)
  • Feigert m. Teske
• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births Records 186X (D. Wahl)
  • Schauer

Stryumbeni  Estate and Village/ Bess.

• Galician German-Russians leased the land on the Strumbeni Estate in 1881.
•  Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 119

Stuart Estate, Bess.

• See Ciobana Estate / Bess.

Sturdsa [Sturdza] Estate / Bess

• 1812 - Scarlat Sturdza was given 6,000 desiantinas of land in Bessarabia, p. 59 The Russian Annexation of Bessarabia 1774-1828 by  Georg F. Jewsbury
• Countess Gagarina Sturdsa owned 98,800 acres of land in the Bender Dist. of Besss.  She offers some of it to settle teh village of Helenowka....
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 147

Sud = South

Sud Kaukasus = South Caucasus, see Caucasus

Sudak / Kr

Sulz / Od

Swedish Colonies  (Swendenkolonien) - Later resettled by Germans

• Alt-Schwedendorf found in 1781
• Klosterdorf found in 1805
• Schlangendorf found in 1805
• Muehlhausendorf found in 1806

Tamurka  Estate / Bess.

• 1895 - Johann Gottlieb Gerstenbeger purchased 2,698.5 acres from a Tartar nobelman Tamurk.  The family's sucess allowed them to expand to 5,235.4 acres.....
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 131-132
• Gerstenberger family breed horses and Caracul sheep....

Tarutino / Bessarabia

Taurien [Molotschina or Prischib Districts] District's of German Colonies:

• Alt-Montal
• Alt-Nassau
• Blumental
• Darmstadt
• Durlach
• Friedrichsfeld
• Gruental
• Heidelberg
• Hochheim
• Hochstaedt
• Hoffental
• Kaissertal
• Karlsruhe
• Kostheim
• Kronsfeld
• Leitershausen
• Neu-Montal
• aNeu-Nassau
• Prischib
• Reichenfeld
• Rosental
• Tiefenbrunn
• Waldorf
• Wassserau
• Weinau
• Neudorf

Teplitz / Bess

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps 93-95

Tchemtschelly / Bess.

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 78-79

Themfijewka Chutor / Od

• Families in death records of Freudental / Od
  • Enzi

Tiefenbrunn / Tau

Tiegenhof / Gr

Tiegenort / Gr

Tolstoy Estate, Bess.

• See Romanowka / Bess. .
•  See Parapara/ Bess..
• See Kroll Estates...
• See Fuch Estate....
• See Gerstenberger Estate....
• See Sarazika Eckert / Bess. ....
• See Freidenstal / Bess.....
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 106 tells us the Countess is a relative of Leo Tolstoy, the famous autor of WAR AND PEACE.

Tomatschinsky Estate / Bess.

• Field  Marshal Tomatschinsky of Akkermann
• See Schulzenheim Estate

Trachtenberg Estate / Bess.

• See Kurudschika Estate / Bess.

Tschachailowa / ____

• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births Records 186X (D. Wahl)
  • Friedrich Weber m. Margaretha Mayer.  Child born 19 May 1868 named Rosina Weber. Cassel Colony mentioned

Tschiligider / Bess.

• 1884 - Countess Akordati  sold 13,923 acres to Gerrstenberg, Renz, Nesper, Morgenstern.....Later, other German-Russians purchzsed land. Those mentioned were: Hahn and Veygel...
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 132

Tsherkess, Crimea

Tvnoffka Chutor / __

Varnau Estate /Bess.

• the Varnau were a prominent Romanian family gained land grants in 1812
• data found p. 58 THE RUSSIAN ANNEXAION OF BESSARABIA 1774-1828 by Georg F. Jewsburg

Vladimirowka Estate / Bess.

• See Hoffmann Estates / Bess.

Volhynia

• History:  was one of the oldest Slavic settlements.  After the breakup of the Duchy of Galich-Vladimiar in the 14th century it became a disputed piece of land between Poland and Lithunania.  In 1569 became Polish province.  In 1793 and 1795  it passed to Russia in the Polish partition.  From 1921 - 39 it was under Polish rule.  1945 it became part of  the USSR.
• Web Sites
  • Villages of Faustindorf, Stanislowa, and Alt Sapust  with some photographs  and is particularly on the families of Hoffmann, Lehmann, Spitzer, Radke, and related families.: http://www.cba.hawaii.edu/remus/genes/
  • SGGEE [Socity for Ferman Genealogy in Eastern Europe]: www.contact@sggee.org
  • Map in JewishGen: http://www.jewishgen.org/ukraine/volhynia/
  • Pixel: http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/library/stpete/volhynia

Waldorf / Tau

Wa?y Post Chutor / ____

• Families Listed in Glueckstal Deaths, 1833-1885 (E. Ehrman):
  • Flemmer

Walerianowka Estate/ Bess.

• See Wuerth Estate

Wassalirkov Chutor / ___

• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births and Marriages, 1833-1900 (H. Ehrman)
  • Wahl m. Kerner

Wasseljeska Chutor / ____

• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births and Marriages, 1833-1900 (H. Ehrman)
  • Klooz
  • Helm
  • Koerner
  • Mehlhaff
  • Pietz m. Meidinger

Wasserau / Tau

Wasslivker Chutor / ____

• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births and Marriages, 1833-1900 (H. Ehrman)
  • Helm
  • Hochhalter

Wartotschan Estate

• See Neu-Odessa / Bess.

Waterloo / Od.  I

• 1819 -
• p. 217 - 219 in  Homesteaders on the Steppe by Joseph S. Height. Page 90 has list of settlers but unknown if pretain to Waterloo I or Waterloo II.
• Stumpp's Bk. pps.  8043- 804  lists colonists of 1819.  #11 Heirnich Sauter; #15 Johann Sautter [p. 803]

Waterloo / Od. II

• 1832
• 1833 - Establsihed the second time: Of the original families only 20 remained.  
• Chronicles of Waterloo, p. 217  Homesteaders on the Steppe by Joseph S. Height. Original written by Merkel and Huhn, 6 May 1848
• Also known as Borodino / Kher.
• Photograph from Merv Rennich - Waterloo II, 1 June 1998

Weinitach [Weinitsch] Chutor / ___

• Families Listed in Glueckstal Deaths, 1833-1885 (E. Ehrman):
  • Bosche
  • Goehring

Weinau / Tau

Wickerau / Gr

Wiktirewka / Od

• Families in death records of Freudental / Od
  • Redinger

Wischinowka / Bess.

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 162

Wittenberg / Bess

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 65-67.
• Also known as Malojarosavetz I. and Mariental

Wolontirowka/ Bess.

• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 79-81

Worms / Od.

• *
• Worms/ Od in Remmick.Home.Site

Wuerth Estate/ Bess.

• August Wuerth purchased 125 desjatines (308.7 acres) of land from Countess Tolstoy
• Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, pps. 134-135
• Also known as Walerianowka Estate
• 1910 Wuerth sold his land to Gottfried Gerstenberger
• 1911 Chistian Fuch and his wife Mathilde, nee Gerstenberger,  purchased  the estate

Z

Zaim Estate / Bess [poss Haihm Estate]

• p. 373 Russia, A Handbook for Traveles, ed. 1914 by Karl Baeadeker
• p. 149  Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert Kern, p. 149

Zibfuls Chutor / ____

• Families mentioned in Glueckstal / Od. Births Records 186X (D. Wahl)
  • Matthaeus Weisser  m. Katharina Hieb.  Child b. 22 Sept 1868 by name of Barbara

Zuerichtal / Kr

*  Villages Judy A. Remmick-Hubert's ancestors had lived.

Notes: Chutors were estates / landed property.

B = People from Borodino / Bess.  migr. to this village

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-Lichtental/ Bessarabia, S. Russia -

While on an Elderhostel tour of Ukraine and Russia, my wife and I hired a driver and interpreter in Odessa and drove to Lichtental, the village of my Wolf ancestors. We had an incredible experience in visiting the village. I had Dr. Roth's village map showing who lived in what house in 1940  and also when the village was established. When we came over the hill and looked into the valley where Lichtental resides, I knew it was it before the driver said we were there. The town looked just like the map and pictures. All of the houses that were there in 1940 are still there, except a few have been upgraded with poured cement walls. My great grandfather's house unfortunately had just been torn down and a new concrete house built in its place. The rocks from the old house were still in the street in front of the house. The Church is still there in all its glory, despite the fire that destroyed the roof and inside walls. The Church yard is still there, in the middle of the village. It is overgrown with weeds and orchard trees. It appears that people do not even walk across the Church yard, but walk around it. We asked many people if there was anyone living there who was there in 1940. The answer was always no. The people seemed anxious when they found we were descendants of the German Russians who had lived there before. Our interpreter indicated that they were concerned about possible claims of  German Russians on their homes and farm land. Finally, we found a man who said he thought there was a family in town who remembered 1940. Sure enough, an old couple lived in one of the houses. He was ill and could not get out of bed, but she was up and around. She had just baked bread in the summer kitchen. Anita bought a loaf from her. This old couple explained their relationship with Lichtental. In 1940 they lived outside of Lichtental. He walked into town every day to work as a day laborer in the German Russian fields. One day he walked into Lichtental to report for work when he found an eerie silence. There were no children running around, there were no horses being harnessed to go out into the fields. There were no people in evidence. There were dogs and cats roaming around, The cows were mooing because they had not been milked the night before nor that morning. He called out to his friends and neighbors, but there was no response. It was like a ghost town. He finally went into the home of one of the families that hired him and found equally strange things. The dishes were in the cupboards, the clothes were in the closets, the pots and pans were in the summer kitchen. Everything was normal, except there were no people. He went from house to house and found not one single living soul. And so he went home and he and his wife tried to figure out what is going on. The next day he went back to Lichtental and found the same situation. But now the cows were desperate with pain for not having been milked. The dogs and cats were looking for food. The chickens were out in the fields looking for food having not been fed in a couple of days. The horses were roaming free out in the fields. The town was scary. He took one of the horses and rode into the nearest city. He went to the Russian officials office to inquire about Lichtental. He was told that the residents of Lichtental were never coming back; they were gone forever. He was told to go to Lichtental and pick out a home for himself and to spread the word among the Ukrainians living in the prairie to come and claim a house. In a few days Lichtental was completely populated with people; all Ukrainians. They quickly learned how to use the equipment left there, how to use the summer kitchens and how to use the plows, etc. But, the Russians immediately came and confiscated all the land and all the people worked the land as a cooperative or a kibbutz. And that is what is still going on in 1998 when we were there. The old couple also exhibited some fear of our repossessing the house, She explained that when they moved in the place was a complete disaster and they had to completely rebuild it. She was trying to justify ownership of the place. She contradicted her husband's earlier story about finding the places just like the German's had left it. And he had first pick of all the houses. It was obvious from examining the house that it was exactly as they had found it 56 years before. The rooms still had the same old paint, the outside was the same except for some tin patches on the roof. The summer kitchen and the indoor bakery oven were the same. All the walls were a foot or more thick and solid rock. Nothing had changed, not even the simple furniture. What was most eerie about Lichtental was that all the houses were still there after 56 years, except the few that had been rebuilt. And not one new house has been added in 56 years. The house numbering, the street ends, the bridge over the river, the cemetery, it was all the way Roth described it and wrote about it and drew pictures of same. Even the picture of the Church was the same as now, albeit the wooden steeple and roof were gone. Before we left we stopped by the cemetery where so many of my relatives were buried. We could not find any Lutheran grave markers. Only Russian Orthodox crosses adorned the graves and the dates were all post 1942. Where the German Russians were buried before 1942 was now a Russian Orthodox graveyard. We asked what happened to the pre-1942 graves. One of the Ukrainians at the cemetery explained that the old graves were at the back of the cemetery. We looked and found none. The Roth map showed the German Russian graves exactly where the newer Ukrainian graves were now. We could not find out what happened to the graves or the gravestones. And so today we still do not know what happened to the roughly 1500 people who lived in Lichtental in 1940. There were about 50 Wolfs, all relatives of mine, who lived there in 1940. None have ever been heard from. Besides the old Ukrainian couple in Lichtental, I have talked to two other people who once lived in Lichtental. Neither of them could shed any light on what happened to my relatives. Dr. Roth, who was a school teacher in Lichtental, got out before whatever happened on that infamous day in 1940. He wrote a very good book on Lichtental, but knew nothing about 1940. He lived in Kirchberg, Germany, where many of the Lichtental people came from before they moved to Lichtental. I also talked to the late Fritz Wolf who also lived in Germany a few years ago. He and his wife were professors at the University of Odessa in 1940. He was born in Lichtental and was a great uncle of mine. He also had no knowledge of what happened to the people in Lichtental in 1940. Dr. Roth and Dr. Fritz Wolf and the old Ukrainian couple would not speculate on where the people went. None of them have shown up in Kirchberg, the origin of the Wolfs and others who lived in Lichtental in 1942. I am planning to be in Stuttgart in June of 2000 when the annual German Russian gathering will take place. It is possible that someone will show up that can provide some visibility. Because the meeting is very near Kirchberg, my hope is that some survivors from the Russian communities in Kasackstan or Siberia will be there. But because none showed up at the Frankfort gathering that I attended and because none of the people who lived there and had relatives there can shed any light on the disappearance, my fear is that they either perished on the way to Siberia or there simply was not room in the public transport used to move the people to Siberia and they simply wound up in a mass grave somewhere in the vicinity of Lichtental. I certainly would appreciate any information about Lichtental and any survivors of the 1940  cataclysm. Don Wolf, 15400 Winchester Blvd., #36, Los Gatos, CA 95030 408 395 2921 Tel.; 408 395 0042 Fax.; E-mail:  dawolf1@aol.com PS Genealogically researching my German Russian family tree in Lichtental, Besserabia, Ukraine, Crimea and other Germanic areas of Russia and Kirchberg area in Germany plus ND, MT, SD--Ade, Baltzarin, Bissinger, Breidenbucher, Burch, Ebinger, Gebhardt, Giess, Gohl, Hessert, Hutel, Kilber, Krapf, Mayer, Miller, Morast, Mutschelkraus, Ortel, Reichert, Reinhart, Sailer, Scheidt, Schillinger, Schmied, Schwaderer, Siegmond, Siegmont, Stock, Unterseher; Weirk. Weisenburger, Wiedrich, Wolf. I also am researching my wife's family that goes back to the time of Christ. I have over 29,000 relatives, mostly ancestors of my grandchildren, in my data base.

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