Lichtental, Bessarabia
The Regional Interest Group for this village is Bessarabia & Dobrudscha Chapter
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- Region: Black Sea
- Area: Bessarabia
- District: Akkerman
- Rayon:
- Founded: 1834
- Religion: Evangelical Lutheran
- Location: D-8 Stumpp Map
- Longitute and Latitude:
- Parish: Sarata
- German Name: Lichtental
- Russian Name:
- Ukrainian Name:
Remarks:
Founded by families from the Waiblingen region of Würtemberg (near Stuttgart), and in 1838, 1839, and 1840 more settlers arrived from Ludwigsburg, Weiblingen, and Marbach.
Books:
From Catherine to Khruschev by Dr. Adam Giesinger (page 118)
The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 – 1862 by Karl Stumpp (pp. 535-538)
Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans by Pastor Albert Kern, village history (pp.182-184), list of MIA/deaths in WWI/II pp. 268-271.
Village History - 1848
War Records
- EWZ Records
- DAI Bessarabia Village Reports
- DAI Miscellaneous Reports
- Evacuation from Bessarabia & Bukovina
- Bessarabia Koblenz Index Derivative
Supplemental Information
- Bessarabia Head of Household Index
- Bessarabia Surnames Origins Index
- Heimatbuch der Dobrudscha Deutschen Surname Index
- Christian Fiess Indices
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