Villages


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KET RIG

Neu-Jamburg, Jekaterinoslaw

  • Region: Black Sea
  • Area:  Jekaterinoslaw Government
  • District: Kreis Alexandrowsk 
  • Rayon: Mariupol
  • Founded: 1847
  • Religion: Catholic
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  • German Name: Neu-Jamburg
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Notes:
In 1847, thirty-seven families (241 persons) from the three small Catholic villages near Jamburg (Kingisepp) on the Luga River about sixty-five miles southwest of St. Petersburg (Leningrad), formed the village of Neu-Jamburg. The Catholic villages near St. Petersburg had been formed in about 1767. No village report was ever made for Neu-Jamburg nor is it listed in the Stumpp book.

Church Records

  • None known at this time

Articles

  • Villages In Which Our Forefathers Lived: Early Daughter Colonies Near Mariupol, by Adam Giesinger, AHSGR Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring 1979)
  • The Planer Colonies, by A. Prinz (translation by J.L. Ritchie), Heritage Review, Vol 23: 1, 1993.

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