Last Updated 26  April 2003

Schweikert Family continued....

Russia Near The Black Sea

Points of Interest Are:

1. This is where the Danuble (Donu) River flows toward the Black Sea.  Many Germans who migrated to Russia took "Ulmer Schachtels" (wooden boats) from Ulm, Ba.-Wu. Germany  to the area marked 17 which was Ismail.  Nearby  the Russian authories held the immigrants in quarantine before allowing them to continue their journey to their new homes.
2. Galati is where the Danube River is joined by the Prut River which is the border of Bessarabia
3. Kischnev [Kischnef] , City of: is the capital of Bessarabia.  Just south of here is where the Hein and Schweikert family settled in a German-Russian colony known as Borodino
   • See list of Borodino Colonists, [Ancestors and Descendants May Be Included]
4. Mother colonies of the Odessa area between the Dnjestr and Bug Rivers:
   • Glueckstalers
     • This area included the colonies of Glueckstal and Hoffnunstal where the Kranzlers and Henke families migrated to in the early 1800s
     • Neudor/ Od.:  See Hoffer Families Some members of this family had settled first in Glueckstal....
   • Beresaners
     • Worms/Od. S. Russia with history and many photographs  See Remmick/Roemmich Family Tree
   • Grossliebentalers
   • Kutschurganers
   • Remmick/Roemmich Chutors [Estates]:  There were seven in this area and one north of Kischnev in Bessarabia
5. Odessa, the Black Sea Port City
6. Kherson [Cherson], City of.  Nearby were the German colonies
7. In the late 1800s there was a pontoon bridge which connected the main land of Russia and the peninsula of the Crimea  [Crim = Krim] 
8. Eupatoria, Crimea
9. To the left of this number is the town of Sebastopol and to the right of this number is Yalta, Crimea
10. Rostov
11. Tbilisi [Tifilis], Caucasus, Georgia [Grusien]
12. Elizavetpol, Georgia on the border of the Trans Caucasus Steppes
13. Caspian  Sea
14. Volga River.  To the north of the number shown were colonies of Germans who settled here as early as 1766
15. Istanbul is where the captured prisoners from Katherinfeld Colony were sold as slaves by the Turks who had raided the village in 1826
16. Black Sea
    • Villages of German-Russians,  Lists of
17. Ismail is on the northern fingers of the Danube where it empties into the Black Sea
18. Dobrudscha, known also as the Garden of Eden, is the area of land between Bessarabia and Bulgaria with the Danube River as it's border.  Across the river  [west bank] was Rumania.
    • R. Margaretha, nee Roedel, Stehr, who was born in Wurttemberg in 1808 and often spoke of her journey from Wu. to Russia to Caucasus to Jursaleum then back into Russia to settle in Beresina/Bess., died in Dobrudscha in 1904.

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