Village Coordinator:   Tim Janzen 

Notes:
    According to Giesinger in From Catherine to Khruschev a group of 228 families, who left Prussia in 1788, arrived on the banks of the Dnieper River opposite Alexandrovsk (Zaporozhye) in the summer of 1789 and founded the first eight villages of the Chortitza settlement: (1) Chortitza, (2) Rosenthal, (3) Insel Chortitza, (4) Einlage, (5) Kronsweide, (6) Neuenburg, (7) Neuendorf, and (8) Schönhorst. In the years 1793 to 1796 another 118 West Prussian families arrived. Most settled in the original 8 villages but 32 families , religiously dissident from the main group, founded (9) Schönwiese, and (10) Kronsgarten between 1793 and 1797. Early in the 1800s the government gave them additional land on which they founded (11) Burwalde, (12) Nieder-Chortitza, (13) Kronsthal, (14) Neu Osterwick, (15) Schöneberg, (16) Rosengart, (17) Blumengart, and (18) Neuhorst.

Books
    The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 – 1862 by Karl Stumpp (page 92)
    From Catherine to Khruschev by Dr. Adam Giesinger (pages 97-99)
    The Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1 (pages 569-573)
    Building on the Past by Rudy Friesen (pages 96-229)

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