Chronology of Mannsburg, Bessarabia
Prepared by Elli Wise and Dale Wahl
1863 The village of Mannsburg founded on 5,000 desjatines of leased land. Distance to Akkermann – 16.6 miles, in the Alialia Valley
Founders came from Kulm, Alt Elft, Dennewitz and Plotzk
1881 3,000 destajatines of land purchased at 38 silver rubles per destajatine
1888 School and Prayer House was finished
1891 A two classroom public school was built
1892 Bishop Freifeld and Senior Pastor Faltin of Kischinev visited
1896 Superintent Pingoud of Petersburg, and Senior Pastor Alber from Grossliebental visted
1910 700 destajatines purchased at 1,000 rubles per destajatine
1906 The Mannsburg Bank was founded
1911 Regular pastoral services began
1914 The railroad from Leipzig to Akkermann was finished and a station was put at Mannsburg, and at Kantemier
One class school was built accompanied by teacher’s quarters
German teachers after WWI were: Georg Riedmüller, Otto Keller, Walter Baisch, Jakob Semmler and Johann Haag.
1918 Odessa seaport was cut-off. Grain was brought to Mannsburg to be shipped by rail.
1920 A Music club was established
1923 A Health club was opened
1925 The Minerva Banks was founded
1932 New Tile/brick factory was opened
1940 Resettlement
Family names at time of re-settlement :
Anklam, Arnold, Bader, Bantel, Bareiter, Bartel, Beck, Becker, Benz, Beutler, Bihlmeyer, Blech, Bohnet, Böpple, Bossert, Böttcher, Bratinow, Bröckel, Bross, Buchfink, Daffe, Deiss, Dehring, Döhring, Eckert, Ensminger, Enßlen, Faas, Fächner, Fey, Fieß, Flaig, Flöder, Föhl, Fried, Gabert, Gebhardt, Gläsmann, Göhnert, Gräßle, Graumann, Gunsch, Gust, Haag, Haase, Haisch, Handel, Hannemann, Hartwig, Hätterle, Herzenstein, Hinss, Höfel, HoppJadatz, Janke, Jankelunas, Jeske, Jergenz, Joachim, Jörke, Joos, Keller, Kison, Klein, Klukas, Knecht, Knodel, Knopp, Koth, Kreis, Kroisandt, Kuch, Kuhr, Kurz, Lapuschkin, Layer, Lehr, Littau, Lobe, Löffelbein, Machau, Mädche, Mainzer, Manske, Marks, Marx, Martsch, Mattheis, Matz, Mehl, Moldenhauer, Müller, Mutschler, Netzer, Neubauer, Neumann, Peppke, Phister, Pik, Pommereinke, Radies, Radke, Reimann, Reinig, Renz, Ritz, Rivinius, Roi, Ruff, Sauer, Sawall, Schaal, Schaibel, Scherer, Scheuffele, Schill, Schimke, Schlechter, Schmauder, Schmidt, Schmidtgall, Schmitt, Schramm, Schulz, Schütz, Schweigert, Semmler, Silbermann, Simon, Sommerfeld, Sperling, Sprenger, Stach, Staib, Stark, Steinhilber, Steinke, Stelter, Stephan, Stohler, Suchland, Sutter, Treichel, Tschritter, Vossler, Wagner, Weber, Wegner, Wiedmayer, Wilske, Winter, Woitenko, Wolf, Wudel, Würch, Würth, Zaiser
After WWII the following emigrated:
Anklam, Adelheid with husband Alfred Blümel to Australia
Bantel, Arthur with wife Erna Ileier to Canada
Bihlmeyer, Ute with husband David Richard to USA
Böpple, Herta with husband Eduard Stutz to USA
Deiss, Artur with wife Ella Schmauder to USA
Deiss, Otto with wife Josephine Blechschmidt to France
Eckert, Erwin with wife Rosa Leuthner to Austria
Fieß, Irma single to USA
Flaig, Lilli with husband David Hopp to Canada
Gebhardt, Gottlieb with wife Alwine Knecht to Brasil
Hätterle, Artur with wife Olga Böpple to USA
Jadatz, Albert with wife Zitta Bantel to Canada
Janke, Erwin with wife Brigit Bogner to USA
Jergentz, Dina with husband Otto Meyer to Canada
Koth, Lore with husband Otto Lagger to Canada
Kroisandt, Ernst with wife Erika Gumerinka to USA
Kuhr, Elvire with husband Fritz Belschner to USA
Müller, Norbert single to USA
Rivinius, Norbert single to Canada
Schimke, Harry with wife Elfi Klank to Canada
Schmauder, Edwin with wife Doris Jonson to USA
Schmauder, Erwin with wife Lilli Jeckel to Canada
Schmauder, Lore with husband Heinz Wirschke to USA
Schmitt, Gottlieb with wife Lydia Moritz to Canada
Stohler, Olga geb. Anklam to Switzerland
Wegner, Eduard with wife Ottilie Friske to USA
° Giesinger, Adam. From Catherine to Khrushchev – The Story of Russia’s Germans. American Historical Society of Germans from Russia. Lincoln, Nebraska. 1981.
° Kern, Albert. Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans. English translation published by the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, North Dakota State University Libraries. 1998.
° Chronik und Familienbuch der Gemeinde Mannsburg, Kreis Akkerman Bessarabien 1863-1964, by Christian Fiess