Alexanderhilf Village Information

Region: Black Sea Founded: 1805 German Name: Alexanderhilf
Area: Odessa Religion: Evangelical Russian Name: Alexeyevka
District: Grossliebental Location: See map Ukrainian Name: Dobro-Alexandrovka
Rayon: Owidiopol        

Village CoordinatorsGayla Aspenleiter, Elli Wise & Ila Jean Johnson

Notes:
From Stumpp book/page 88, "In 1817, another 17 families arrived, 12 of them from Württemberg. In 1805-06 all except a few families died out. The farmyards were not resettled until 1807-1817 and 1825."

Pioneer Settler Surnames: Arnold, Bader, Baier, Bauer, Baumgärtner, Bender, Berg, Bertsch, Betz, Biedermann, Binder, Blum, Bock, Briem, Brodbeck, Büber, Dendler, Dietz, Eberle, Eichholz, Eippert, Fauser, Feil, Friesinger, Frisch, Führer, Gärtner, Gauch, Gehring, Göhring, Graf, Hägele, Hafner, Haffner, Heim, Henzler, Hirning, Hissung, Hottmann, Hütter, Jose, Kaiser, Kappel, Klein, König, Klöpfer, Köpplin, Kopp, Kreis, Langenstein, Lautenschläger, Lehr, Lotthammer, Luithle, Mägle, Mahler, Maier, Maisch, Mayer, Metz, Moor/Mohr, Nägle, Neth, Neubauer, Neufer(t), Neuschele, Ottmar, Pfau, Pfeiffer, Ploch, Rehm, Rösle, Rösler, Roth, Rummel, Schenk, Scheu, Schlafmann, Schmid, Schmidt, Schnabel, Schöpp, Schröder, Schüler, Stephan, Stoll, Strauss, Stuber, Stumpp, Sutter,Torno, Uhl, Voggenberger, Vollmer, Wessner, Wohl, Zeh, Zehender. (Source: Homesteaders on the Steppe by Joseph S. Height and Erinnerungen an die deutschen Kolonien des Grossliebentaler Rayons bei Odessa by Eduard Mack.)

The settlers in bold arrived via Hungary to Alexanderhilf. Some of the settlers spent very little time (one winter) in Hungary while others were there much longer. For more information on Germans from Hungary to Russia click on the Hungary to Russia link.

Books
    The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 – 1862 by Karl Stumpp (pages 564-568)
    Auswanderung Aus Schwaben Nach Russland 1816-1823 by Dr. Georg Leibbrandt (copy available at the GRHS Library)
    Erinnerungen an die deutschen Kolonien des Grossliebentaler Rayons bei Odessa by Eduard Mack (pages 123- 176)
    From Catherine to Khruschev by Dr. Adam Giesinger (pages 102-105)
    Homesteaders on the Steppe by Joseph S. Height (pages 79-80, 154-156 & 336-339)

Plat Maps: Homesteaders on the Steppe (page 338) and Erinnerungen an die deutschen Kolonien des Grossliebentaler Rayons bei Odessa (page 176).

Village History - 1848  

Census Records
   
Black Sea German Russian Census Volume 1 by GRHS
   Alexanderhilf Liebental District Odessa 1858 Census by GRHS and AHSGR

Church Records
   
St. Petersburg Archives - Grossliebental Parish
    St. Petersburg Annual Reports of 1899-1917

Death Notices Database

Articles
   
Heritage Review - 1974 - Issue 8, page 4 (Resettlement, 1944)
   GDO Newsletter - Alexanderhilf Early Settlers - Issue 2-1, page 6

Ship Records

Alexanderhilf Family Database

War Records

EWZ Index for this Village

Koblenz Index for this Village

Repressions Database


Supplemental Information

Movement into and out of Bessarabian Villages
Fond 6-1-593 Gains and Losses Oct 1811 (births/deaths/marriages)
Fond 6-1-593 Gains and Losses Oct 1811 (Statistics)
Fond 6-1-626 Gains and Losses Jan 1812 (births/deaths/marriages)
Fond 6-1-626 Gains and Losses Jan 1812 (Statistics)
Fond 252-1-470 Gains and Losses July - Dec 1822 (births/deaths/marriages)
Fond 252-1-470 Gains and Losses July - Dec 1822 (Statistics)
Fond 252-1-7 GDO Marriages 1816
Fond 252-1-46 GDO Marriages 1817/1818
Fond R-2106 - List of the District and Village Revolutionary Committees, Grossliebental District, Odessa Gebiet February 23, 1920
Fond 484-1-2372 - St. Petersburg Annual Reports 1899-1917 (Births)
Fond 252-1-280 - Wheat Distribution/Borrowing
Fond 6-1-1786 (English translation) (German translation) - 1824-1833 focuses on boundaries of land in Liebenthal district and new settlement in Neu Freudental

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