• Region: Black Sea
• Area: Bessarabia
• District:
• Rayon:
• Founded: 1861
• Religion: Evangelical
• Location: E-7 Stumpp Map
• Longitute and Latitude:
• Parish: Andrejewka
• German Name: Dennewitz
• Russian Name:
• Ukrainian Name:

Remarks: The village of Eigenheim was the first daughter colony in formed in the lower part of Bessarabia. The founders came from Plotzk (Blum, Hoehn, Janke, Schwandt, and Wilske); from Kulm (Doberstein, Fercho, Gross, Guse, Isaak, Kison, Klukas, Marks, Moewes, Raugust, Schimke, Selcho, Stelter, and Pischel); from Tarutino (Fechner, Graumann, Seefreid, Priebe, Wonneberg, and Zarbock); from Paris (Floether, Jess, and Kern); from Alt Elft (Radke, Reich, and Reinke); from Katzbach (Burgemeister and Schill); from Leipzig (Lemke) and from Gnadental (Bareither, Lebkuch, Nabert, and Riedlinger).

Books
From Catherine to Khruschev by Dr. Adam Giesinger (page 118)
Auswanderung Aus Schwaben Nach Russland 1816-1823 by Dr. Georg Leibbrandt (Chapter 40, copy available at the GRHS)
Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans by Pastor Albert Kern, village history (pp.71-72), list of MIA/deaths in WWI/II pp. 229-230.

Church Records:

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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