Village Coordinator:  Carol Harless

Remarks:  The village of Dennewitz was founded by 15 families on a piece of land which originally belonged to Teplitz (C-9).  The families came from Alt Postal, Wittenberg, and Kulm.  Others came from Grunbach in Würtemberg, from Baden or from Poland.

Books
    From Catherine to Khruschev by Dr. Adam Giesinger (page 118)
    The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 – 1862 by Karl Stumpp (pp. 516-517)
    Auswanderung Aus Schwaben Nach Russland 1816-1823 by Dr. Georg Leibbrandt (Chapter 40, copy available at the GRHS)
    Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans by Pastor Albert Kern, village history (pp.54-55), list of MIA/deaths in WWI/II pp. 225-226.

Village History - 1848  

Census Records
    Dennewitz 1850 Census (Public Store)
   Dennewitz 1850 Census Surname Index

Church Records
    St. Petersburg Extractions 1833-1885

    Dennewitz Alt Elft B 1835-1840 1198663 1
    Dennewitz Alt Elft B 1835-1901 1768317 2
    Dennewitz Alt Eft B 1841-1842 38882 with Alt Elft
    Dennewitz Alt Elft B 1841-1842 1198663 3
    Dennewitz Alt Elft B 1843-1854 1198664
    Dennewitz Alt Elft B 1855-1862 1198665
    Dennewitz Alt Elft B 1863-1891 2161875 4
    Dennewitz Alt Elft B 1902-1937 2161878 4
    Dennewitz Alt Elft Conf 1841-1852 1768096 1
    Dennewitz Alt Eft D 1837-1840 38891 2 pp 68-71 - fair
    Dennewitz Alt Elft D 1837-1901 1768317 2
    Dennewitz Alt Elft FR 1834 1766543 4
    Dennewitz Alt Elft FR 1912 1768318
    Dennewitz Alt Elft FR 1846-1860 1766543 5 continued 1768265
    Dennewitz Alt Elft FR 1846-1860 1766617 page 91 (only part of FR)
    Dennewitz Alt Eft FR 1861-1880 38890 fair
    Dennewitz Alt Elft FR 1861-1880 1768318
    Dennewitz Alt Elft FR 1883-1902 1768318
    Dennewitz Alt Eft 38892

War Records
    EWZ Records
    Dennewitz Koblenz Exodus Online
    Dennewitz Bessarabia Koblenz Index Derivative
    Evacuation from Bessarabia & Bukovina
    DAI Bessarabia Village Reports
    DAI Miscellaneous Reports  

Supplemental Information
    Bessarabia Head of Household Index
   Bessarabia Surnames Origins Index
   Heimatbuch der Dobrudscha Deutschen Surname Index
   Christian Fiess Indices

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