Village Coordinators: Elena Gabriel and Mary Marando    [repaired 4/28/25]                 

Notes: Original name was Karagoli and listed as found in 1805/09 according to Eduard Mack’s book Erinnerungen an die deutschen Kolonien des Grossliebentaler Rayons bei Odessa. Stumpp book reflects "13 families from Hungary (Temesvar and Kula) again departed. In 1806 – 1809 thirty-eight families came from Alsace and the Rhine Palatinate." This would tend to reflect why the earlier 1805 founding date, and also reflect why others use the founding date of 1808. Mertens states in his book Handbuch Russland-Deutsche on page 288 that the population in 1825 was 361, 625 in 1852, 789 in 1858, 789 in 1859, 803/924 in 1905 with 130 houses, 665 in 1911, 690 in 1914, 690 in 1919, 702 in 1926, and 1,013 in 1943.

Photo Album

Pioneer settler surnames: Art, Bauer, Becker, Bischof, Braun, Busch, Deck, Dorzapf, Eckstat, Fix, Frank, Freihaut, Gotz, Hatterle, Heer, Heissler, Hilsendeger, Job, Kaiser, Kohler, Leibham, Matery, Matsom, Merdian, Mock, Nold, Rammel, Reide, Riffel, Rissling, Schaub, Schmidt, Stengler, Uhl, Ulm, Wagner, Zerr. (Source: Erinnerungen an die deutschen Kolonien des Grossliebentaler Rayons bei Odessa by Eduard Mack.).

Bold denotes settler came via Hungary to Franzfeld. For more information on Germans from Hungary to Russia click on the Hungary to Russia link [repaired 4/28/25].

Plat Maps: Paradise on the Steppe (page 262), The German Colonies in South Russia 1804-1904, Volume 1 (page 202) and Erinnerungen an die deutschen Kolonien des Grossliebentaler Rayons bei Odessa (page 266).  [repaired 4/17/25]

Ship Records

Supplemental Information for this Village:

Movement into and out of Bessarabian Villages [repaired 4/17/25]

Fond 6-1-593 Gains and Losses Oct 1811 (births/deaths/marriages) [repaired 4/17/25]

Fond 6-1-593 Gains and Losses Oct 1811 (Statistics) [broken]

Fond 6-1-626 Gains and Losses Jan 1812 (births/deaths/marriages)  [repaired 4/17/25]

Fond 6-1-626 Gains and Losses Jan 1812 (Statistics) [broken]

Fond 252-1-470 Gains and Losses July - Dec 1822 (births/deaths/marriages) [repaired 4/17/25]

Fond 252-1-470 Gains and Losses July - Dec 1822 (Statistics) [broken]

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 252-1-280 - Wheat Distribution/Borrowing

Fond 134-2-134 - Immigration to Akkermann Kreis Bessarabia [repaired 4/17/25]

Keller zipped files

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