Alexanderdorf

This article deals with the place in Georgia, for the place in Brandenburg see Kummersdorf-Alexanderdorf

Peter-Paul-Kirche in Alexanderdorf (undated)

Michail-Voronzow-Strasse (around 1900)

Marjanishvili Square (2008)

Note Tiflis Alexandersdorf

Alexanderdorf ( Georgian ალექსანდერდორფი , ɑlɛkʰsɑndɛrdorpʰɪ ), at times called Liebknechtsdorf , was a settlement in what is now Georgia , where Caucasian Germans lived. It was in the area of ​​today's Aghmaschenebeli Street ( Dawit-the-Builder- Street, previously Mikhail-Voronzow- Street and until 1990 Georgi Plekhanov- Street) in the Georgian capital Tbilisi .

history

The village was in 1818 by Württemberg pietistic or millenarian settlers who at the invitation of the Russian Tsar in the province Tbilisi , founded had come and after the then Russian tsar I. Alexander named. The first immigrants were mainly involved in agriculture and viticulture or were craftsmen. In 1820, the Lutheran Church of Saint Peter and Paul was built in neo-Gothic architecture in Alexanderdorf on the site of today's Mardschanischwili-Platz .

Incorporation in Tbilisi

In 1824 Alexanderdorf was officially incorporated into the city of Tbilisi , but the settlement retained its village appearance for a long time. Alexanderdorf only acquired an urban character after the 1880s. Since the 1930s, the Caucasian Germans in the Soviet Union faced increasing repression. After the beginning of the German-Soviet War in the summer of 1941, residents of German origin who were not married to Georgians were deported to Central Asia or Siberia. After the end of the war, hardly anyone returned to the Georgian SSR . From 1946 to 1947, the Soviet authorities had the Church of St. Peter and Paul demolished by German prisoners of war in order to redesign the square. Today the former location of the village is called "Aghmaschenebeli Street" and is one of the main and central streets of Tbilisi. In 2018 the administration of Tbilisi had a place-name sign with the inscription 'Alexandersdorf' put up in Georgian and German.

literature

• კვირკველია, თ., ძველთბილისური დასახელებანი, გვ. 10. «საბჭოთა საქართველო», თბ., 1985 ( T. K Wirkwelia, Siedlungen von Alttiflis, p. 10, «Soviet Georgia», Tiflis, 1985 )

Web links

• Temur Ortoidze and Fritz Schumann: German settlers as wine growers! Edited by the Goethe-Institut Tiflis
• The emigration of the Württemberg chiliasts
• Map of the German settlements around Tbilisi

Commons : David Agmashenebeli Street, Tbilisi  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : Peter and Paul Church, Tbilisi  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : Marjanishvili Square, Tbilisi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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Coordinates: 41 ° 42 ′ 34.5 ″  N , 44 ° 47 ′ 50.1 ″  E