Myrnopillja (Arzys)
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| Мирнопілля | |||
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| Oblast : | Odessa Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Arzys district | ||
| Height : | 36 m | ||
| Area : | 2.5 km² | ||
| Residents : | 2,043 (2001) | ||
| Population density : | 817 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 68413 | ||
| Area code : | +380 4847 | ||
| Geographic location : | 46 ° 3 ' N , 29 ° 24' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 5120483401 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 1 village | ||
| Address: | 68413 с. Мирнопілля | ||
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Myrnopillja ( Ukrainian Мирнопілля ; Russian Мирнополье , Romanian Friedenstal , German formerly Friedenstal ) is a town in the southwest of the Ukrainian Odessa Oblast .
The village with about 2000 inhabitants (2001) lies on the river Tschaha ( Чага ) and is the only village of the district council of the same name in the north of the Arzys district .
history
The village is located in the historical Bessarabia landscape . The area of Bessarabia came in 1812 in the Treaty of Bucharest from the Ottoman vassal state of Moldova together with the Budschak to the Russian Empire . The new acquisition was treated as a colonization area and initially assigned to the Governor General of New Russia . In a manifesto from 1813, Emperor Alexander I called German colonists into the country to colonize the newly won steppe areas in New Russia. German emigrants founded Friedenstal here in 1834. The place belongs to the 24 Bessarabian German mother colonies. They were established by immigrants, while daughter colonies were later established by residents of the mother colonies. The emigrants who settled here in 1834 came from various provinces of the Kingdom of Prussia, such as Brandenburg, Pomerania, East Prussia, West Prussia, and the Principality of Mecklenburg. They had settled in Poland in the 18th century. In 1842 the settlers built their first school building in Friedenstal, which was followed by another in 1938. In 1940 there were almost 2200 inhabitants. After the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia in the summer of 1940, covered by the Hitler-Stalin Pact , the Bessarabian German residents joined the resettlement to the German Reich in autumn 1940 under the motto Heim ins Reich .
Edwin Kelm , born in 1929 in Friedenstal, bought his grandparents' former farm in the village in the mid-1990s. He had the courtyard restored and demolished farm buildings as well as the summer kitchen and the fountain rebuilt. In 1998 he opened the farm as a Bessarabia German farmer museum , which later bore the name of the founder as the Edwin Kelm Museum . With its agricultural implements on display, the farm represents a typical form of agriculture for the German population before they left the country in 1940 after the occupation by the Soviet Union. In 2009 Kelm transferred the museum to the Bessarabiendeutschen Verein , which also runs the Bessarabiendeutsche Heimatmuseum in Stuttgart.
Sons and daughters of the church
- Edwin Kelm * 1929, chairman of various Bessarabian German associations
See also
literature
- Albert Kern (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch der Bessarabiendeutschen . Auxiliary Committee of the Evangelical Lutheran Church from Bessarabia, Hanover, 1964, pp. 186–189