• Region: Black Sea
• Area: Bessarabia
• District: Akkerman
• Rayon:
• Founded: 1814
• Religion: Evangelical Lutheran
• Location: C-8 Stumpp Map
• Longitute and Latitude:
• Parish: Klöstitz
• German Name: Klöstitz
• Russian Name:
• Ukrainian Name:

Remarks:
Founded by 143 families from Thorn, Posen, Kowel, Sompolno, Glaenszewo, Mordrzerowo, Plotzk, Lentczyca, and Warsaw, Poland. Of these families, 19 came from Würtemberg, 14 from Baden, 7 from Rheinland-Pfalz, 45 from Poland (after originally immigrating from Southern Germany), and 49 from Prussia.

Books:
From Catherine to Khruschev by Dr. Adam Giesinger (page 117)
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.128-130), list of MIA/deaths in WWI/II pp. 251-255.

Census Records:

Church Records:

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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