Suchuwate
| Suchuwate | |||
| Сухувате | |||
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| Oblast : | Odessa Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Tarutyne district | ||
| Height : | 72 m | ||
| Area : | 0.49 km² | ||
| Residents : | 82 (2004) | ||
| Population density : | 167 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 68513 | ||
| Area code : | +380 4847 | ||
| Geographic location : | 46 ° 25 ' N , 28 ° 59' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 5124787202 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 2 villages | ||
| Mayor : | Heorhiy Paskalov | ||
| Address: | вул. Благоєва 122а 68513 с. Петрівськ |
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Suchuwate ( Ukrainian Сухувате ; Russian Суховатое Suchowatoje - older Russian Киружика Kiruschika , German Kurudschika , Romanian Curudgica ) is a village settlement in Ukraine ( Odessa Oblast , Tarutyne District ). It was created in 1881 in what was then Bessarabia by Bessarabian German settlers. Together with the northern village of Petrivsk ( Петрівськ ) Sukhuwate forms the district council of Petrivsk.
location
Suchuwate is located in the historical landscape of Bessarabia on what is now Ukrainian territory. The village is located within the Budschak in the northern part of the former main settlement area of the Bessarabian Germans, about 120 km as the crow flies from the Black Sea to the south, the border to Moldova runs about 1 km to the west and 2 km to the north of the village. The area around Suchuwate is a gently rolling hilly landscape, the village itself is located in the Kurudschik valley ( Tatar for "dry"). This leads to a ditch that only carries water when it rains. The village is located behind hills and away from major roads and can only be reached via a bypass gravel road; however, there is a stop on the Bender – Galați railway line .
history
The place emerged as a smaller settlement, which only later led to the establishment of the village. In 1881 three families settled on this land, which they leased from a Bulgarian landowner for 10 years. The piece of land comprised 2485 Dessjatinen (one Dessjatine corresponds to 1.11 hectares) in the Kurudschik Valley . The lease required the settlement of at least 30 other families, as sub-tenants, within three years in order to cultivate the land. These new families came from several already existing German settlements in Bessarabia , such as Leipzig , Beresina , Borodino , Tarutino . As required in the lease, the settlers built houses and planted trees on the farmland.
The land on which the village of Kurudschika emerged was granted to the State Councilor Fonton by the Tsarist Empire in 1824 as a property for the establishment of a manor . In addition to Kurudschika, the Bessarabian German settlement Peterstal and, to a small extent, Kolatschowka were built on the lands. Kurudschika was at times also called Günsburgsdorf . This was based on the custom of naming new settlements after the landowner, who was an honorary citizen named Günsburg in the mid-19th century .
At the time the village was founded in 1881, the village belonged to the Russian governorate of Bessarabia . This part of the country belonged to the Budschak, a steppe-like area in the south.
Village development
In the first few years after the foundation, the villagers suffered from hardship due to bad harvests . Nevertheless, in the second year of settlement (1882) they set up a prayer and school house with a teacher's apartment; In 1900 a new building was built for this purpose. Ecclesiastically, the village was assigned to the Bessarabian German parish in Leipzig .
On September 2, 1927, after torrential rain, the nearby steppe river Skinos overflowed its banks and destroyed 57 of the 117 residential buildings in Kurudschika with three meter high tides.
After the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia in June 1940 as a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact , the residents left the village in autumn 1940 and joined the resettlement of the 93,000 Bessarabian Germans to the German Reich .
Ownership
The village was built on leased land. In 1883 the land on which the village stood and on which the arable land was located became the property of a countess. She was well disposed towards the German settlers. From her in 1909 the 84 families in the village were able to buy the land leased up to then in the size of 1681 Dessjatinen (about 1800 hectares), so that the village was on its own land.
population
In the autumn of 1940, 707 people lived on around 120 farms in the village. Like most Bessarabian Germans, they earned their living from agriculture. The county seat was Bender , which also bore this name during the Romanian period of Bessarabia (1918–1940).
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 .
Conditions in World War II
Detailed overview:
See also
literature
- Daniel Erdmann and Edmund Damer: Chronicle of the German community in the village of Kurudschika . - Written for the 50th anniversary in 1931
- Albert Kern: Heimatbuch der Bessarabiendeutschen . Hanover 1976