• 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.

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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