Unter Albota, Bessarabia
- Region: Black Sea
- Area: Bessarabia
- District: Kahul
- Rayon:
- Founded: 1919
- Religion: Evangelical Lutheran
- Location: A-9 Stumpp Map
- Longitute and Latitude:
- Parish: Albota
- German Name: Unter Albota
- Russian Name:
- Ukrainian Name:
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Kamenka (Moldovan), Albota de Joss (Romanian)
Remarks:
Officially founded in 1919 and was annexed to the colony of Albota. But Germans were already living on rented land in this area in the 1880s. The village is currently (2009) in Moldova
Books:
From Catherine to Khruschev by Dr. Adam Giesinger (page 120)
Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans by Pastor Albert Kern, village history (page 52), list of MIA/deaths in WWI/II (page 319).
| Year | Page | Title |
| June 2009 | 12 | Lutheran pastor Vladimir Moser of Tiraspol regularly holds services in Kamenka/ Unter-Albota |
Village History
A Short History of Unter-Albota, District of Cahul in Moldova Today Called Kamenka
The village of Unter-Albota is situated about 1 km from Albota in southwest Moldova and about 28 km north of Cahul. It still exists today under the name of Kamenka and even has its own Russian-Orthodox congregation and priest.
In this area in 1865 German settlers drew up a contract for 25 years with the estate owner Kilius to work his land as renters. When their time ran out, many of the Germans bought their own land in the neighboring villages of Albota and Sofiewka. Then in 1919 the village of Unter-Albota was established and the land bought up by interesting farmers. However many non-Germans also took advantage of this possibility so that Russians, Romanians and Bulgarians outnumbered the German population of Unter-Albota. In 1940 the village was the home of 181 Germans and 420 of other nationalities.
Pioneer Settlers Names:
For the German settlers, church records were kept from 1882 - 1940 in which the following families are recorded:
Beierbach, Bauer, Buchert, Burgemeister, Bohnet, Bädke, Bader, Busch
Döhring, Dehring,
Ehlhard
Fandrich, Falkenberg, Flaig, Fried, Funk,
Günther, Götz, Gehring, Göhner, Gomke
Heß, Herold, Hiller, Haase, Hämmerling, Hasenfuß, Hauser, Heidinger,
Jeske, Jans, Jatatz, Jasmann,
Korns, Kottke, Krüger, Kujath, Klaiber, Keller, Kirschmann, Knopp, Kungel, Kohler, Knoblich, Kannenwischer, Komke
Lutz, Lang, Lanz, Lieske
Maier, Mayer, Müller, Mogk
Nast, Nittel, Nicklaus, Nickel
Ohlhausen
Püschel
Quast,
Romppel, Radach, Rath, Renz, Redelbach, Rosenfelder, Rebmann, Raab, Ruff, Reinke, Radonske, Reis,
Scherbinske, Schorr, Schweigert, Stickel, Speidel, Schneider, Silcher, Sackmann, Schwabe, Seitz, Scharf, Stach, Schulz, Sülzle, Strecker, Schabert, Sturm, Schmid, Suckert, Suckut, Schmidgall Schäufele, Schlenker
Tetzlaff, Taschner, Trautwein, Treichel
Uhlich, Uhlrich, Unterseher
Weiss, Wirth, Wackenhut, Widmer, Wildermuth, Werner,
Zeller, Zieffle, Zuckert
MAP
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