• Region: Black Sea
• Area: Bessarabia
• District: Akkerman
• Rayon:
• Founded: 1822
• Religion: Evangelical Lutheran
• Location: D-8 Stumpp Map
• Longitute and Latitude:
• Parish: Sarata
• German Name: Sarata
• Russian Name:
• Ukrainian Name:

Remarks:
Founded by Ignaz Lindl, a Catholic priest. Eighty families, 40 Catholic and 40 Lutheran arrived at the site of Sarata on March 19, 1822 and more colonists arrived in 1832. Lindl supervised the settlement.

Books:
From Catherine to Khruschev by Dr. Adam Giesinger (page 118)
Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans by Pastor Albert Kern, village history (pp. 180-181 & 185-187), list of MIA/deaths in WWI/II pp. 301-304.
The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 – 1862 by Karl Stumpp (pp. 543-548)
Auswanderung Aus Schwaben Nach Russland 1816-1823 by Dr. Georg Leibbrandt (Chapter 40, copy available at the GRHS)

Census Records:

Church Records:

Village History - 1848

Photos

• 100 Year Jubilee 1822 - 1922

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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