Helenental Village Information
| Region: | Black Sea | Founded: | 1836/38 | German Name: | Helenental |
| Area: | Odessa | Religion: | Evangelical | Russian Name: | Tschernogorka |
| District: | Grossliebental (Liebental) | Location: | See notes below | Ukrainian Name: | Chernogorka |
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Village Coordinator: Ralph Wiseman
Notes: Original settlers came from Leibental district. Helenental is located midway between Odessa and Nikolaiev, in the valley of the Uroditschee Balaitschuzky (Source: Homesteaders on the Steppe). Stumpp book lists Helenental in the Liebental District but Giesinger book does not.
Pioneer settler surnames:.ADE, BARETH, BAUM, BECKER, BIBELHEIMER, FUCHS, GEIGLE, GIMBEL, GRENZ, HUMANN, HUST, KAST, KOCH, LAUDERMILCH, LENO, NATHAN, OBERLÄNDER, ROTH, SCHMIDT, SCHOCK, SIELER, STEIGER, WUNDER, ZEEB, ZIEGLER. (Source: Homesteaders on the Steppe by Joseph S. Height.)
Books
Auswanderung Aus Schwaben Nach Russland 1816-1823 by Dr. Georg
Leibbrandt (copy available at the GRHS Library)
The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 – 1862 by Karl
Stumpp (page 600)
From Catherine to Khruschev by Dr. Adam Giesinger
(pages 102-105)
Homesteaders on the Steppe by Joseph S. Height
(pages 315-318, 320)
Census Records
Black Sea German Russian Census Volume 1 by GRHS
Helenental Beresan District Odessa 1858 Census by GRHS and AHSGR
Church Records
St. Petersburg
Archives Freudental Parish
Plat Map: Homesteaders on the Steppe (page 317)
Articles
GDO Newsletter -
Helenental 1850 Birth Records -
Volume
1 Issue 1, page 7
Election of Helenental Beisitzer -
Volume 2 Issue 1, page 5
War Records
EWZ Index for this Village
Supplemental Information for this Village
Movement into and out of Bessarabian Villages
Fond 134-2-134
- Immigration to Akkermann Kreis Bessarabia
Search the Letter Archives for this Village
Regional Interest Group for this Village: Grossliebental District Odessa
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