Planner colonies near Mariupol

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The planner colonies near Mariupol are colonies founded by Prussian colonists not far from the city of Mariupol in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate in the Russian Empire .

Founding history

At the invitation of the Russian Tsar, Prussian subjects came to Russia from 1818. Originally another settlement was planned, but this was rejected by the colonists because they were of the opinion that agriculture could not be practiced there. Until 1823, the newly arrived settlers stayed with their Mennonite peasants, who had already settled in the Russian Empire at the end of the 18th century. After an ultimatum to the Russian government that they would leave the country if the government did not assign them land, land was made available in the Yekaterinoslav governorate . This was originally intended for Greek and Jewish settlers, but their settlement was not realized on such a large scale that the land became free.

In 1823 15 Protestant and 6 Roman Catholic colonies were founded:

Colonies

Planner colonies near Mariupol :

  • Kirschwald (Protestant, Colony No. 1 - today Wyschnjuwate / Вишнювате )
  • Tiegenhof (Protestant, Colony No. 2 - today Azov )
  • Rosengart (Protestant, Colony No. 3 - Rajhorod - today the northern part of Lystvyanka / Листвянка )
  • Schönbaum (Protestant, Colony No. 4 - today Lystwjanka / Листвянка )
  • Kronsdorf (Protestant, colony No. 5 - Kasjanoselsk - today northern part of Rosiwka )
  • Grunau (Protestant, Colony No. 6 - Alexandronewsk - today in the northeastern part of Rosiwka )
  • Rosenberg (Protestant, Colony No. 7 - today Rosiwka )
  • Wickerau (Protestant, colony No. 8 - today Kuznetivka / Кузнецівка )
  • Reichenberg (Protestant, colony No. 9 - today Bahatiwka / Багатівка )
  • Kampenau (Protestant, colony No. 10 - Kamenske - today southern part of Marjaniwka / Мар'янівка )
  • Mirau (Protestant, colony no.11 - today Myrske / Мирське )
  • Kaiserdorf (Roman Catholic, Colony No. 12 - today Probudschennja / Пробудження )
  • Göttland (Roman Catholic, Colony No. 13 - today Marjaniwka / Мар'янівка )
  • Neuhof (Roman Catholic, colony Nr. 14 - today Nowodworiwka / Новодворівка )
  • Eichwald (Roman Catholic, Colony No. 15 - today Wesna )
  • Tiegenort (Roman Catholic, Colony No. 16 - today Antoniwka / Антонівка )
  • Tiergart (Roman Catholic, Colony No. 17 - destroyed - northeast of Antoniwka)
  • Elisabethdorf (Protestant, colony No. 18 - Blumental - today part of Krasna Poljana )
  • Ludwigstal (Protestant, colony No. 19 - today Sorja / Зоря )
  • Rundewiese (Protestant, colony No. 21 - today Luhanske )
  • Darmstadt (Protestant, Colony No. 25 - today Nowhorod / Новгород )
  • Marienfeld (Protestant, Colony No. 26 - today Marynopil )

Religious life

At the beginning of the settlement in 1823 there were no churches and therefore no parish of its own. The Roman Catholic births, marriages and deaths were recorded in the parish of Jamburg until 1830. The Eichwald parish was founded in 1831 and, in addition to Eichwald itself, also served Göttland, Kaiserdorf, Tiergart, Tiegenhof and Neuhof. After the population kept increasing steadily, Göttland split off in 1872 and together with Kaiserdorf founded their own parish.

The evangelical settlers of the colonies belonged to the communities of Grunau and Ludwigstal from the beginning.

Exploring the colonies

With the beginning of the Second World War, the German population of the colonies was sent into exile in Central Asia and Siberia and the German history of the colonies came to an end. However, the places were partially preserved, as refugees and other settlers from other parts of the USSR were settled there by the Soviet government. Due to the abrupt end of the planner colonies and the difficult access to archive documents, there was hardly any research material for a long time. The Facebook group "Planner Colonies near Mariupol", founded by the history student Peter Aifeld from Germany and the hobby geneticist David Gerlinsky from Canada, set itself the goal of networking the descendants of the planner colonists worldwide and a new attempt at research to start the history of the planner colonies. This Facebook group is now in possession of most of the parish registers of the Eichwald, Göttland and Grunau parishes, as well as the revision lists from 1824, 1835, 1850 and 1858. In addition to conventional genealogy, the group also does DNA genealogy. The group currently has 167 members.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Planner colonies.
  2. ↑ Map of the colonies around Grunau
  3. ^ The colonies near Mariupol on the Sea of ​​Azov
  4. ↑ Jamburg Church Book 1828–1830
  5. ^ Church book Eichwald
  6. ^ Church registers Grunau and Ludwigstal
  7. ↑ "Planner Colonies near Mariupol"