Berezan (colonist district)
Berezan a former colonist district in Ukraine , the area on the steppe river Berezan northeast of Odessa , which was settled in 1809/10. Most of the settlers came from the Rhine provinces of Palatinate, Alsace and Baden.
All colonies - Landau (today Schyrokolaniwka ), Speyer (today Pischtschanyj Brid / Піщаний Брід ), Rohrbach (today Novoswitliwka ), Katharinenthal (today Kateryniwka (Wesselynowe) ), Worms (today Wynohradne / Винограzне destroyed ), Sul (today) Karlsruhe today Stepowe / Степове ), Rastadt (today Poritschtschja ), Munich, Johannestal (today Iwaniwka / Іванівка ), Waterloo (today Stawky / Ставки ) - originally belonged to the Großliebental area. From 1813 they formed the Beresan settlement area. With the administrative division of April 30, 1925, the communities of the Beresan area were combined into a German national Rajon Landau.
In the course of the resettlement campaigns in 1944, Black Sea Germans were transported to Wartheland and naturalized there. In 1945 most of the Black Sea Germans were forcibly repatriated in cattle wagons to the Northern Urals, Kazakhstan .