Neu Berlin Colony
Type of Settlement: Daughter
Founded: 1860/67
Religion: Lutheran
Wolost: Hoffnungstal
District: Tiraspol
Province: Cherson
Other Names and Spellings:
Ukrainian:
Russian: Воробьевка
Also: Vorob'evka, Vorobiivka
History of the Colony
Neu Berlin was a daughter colony that many sources say was founded in 1867. However, there are EWZ records noting births in Neu Berlin as early as 1861, and the colony did appear on an 1860 map. Because of the appearance on a map, the earlier founding date is included here.
Neu Berlin consisted of 3,536 dessiatins [1 dessiatin = 2.7 acres] of land. In 1886, there were between 26 and 50 households was known to be a place that had fruit and grape orchards [Tiraspol-1886]. It was a part of the Neu Freudental parish. It had a school for grades 1-4, and a library in 1926 [Mertens, p. 544].
Karl Stumpp referred to the place as Neu Berlin, but all listings in the Odessa Kalender identified it as Berlin, and letters published in German-language newspapers simply identified it as Berlin [Glückstal-2004]. On maps, however, it is consistently labeled Neu Berlin beginning in 1860.
Surnames
The following surnames appear in the GCRA Points-of-Origin [Glückstal-2021] and in EWZ records [BSGR, www.blackseagr.org....mybirthplace=Neu Berlin] related to births/baptisms in Neu Berlin:
Arnold, Bahnmüller, Barth, Bauer, Bender, Beutelsbacher, Bippus, Bitsch, Boerkirchen, Borth, Brahm, Braun, Dammel, Dick, Ehly, Eipert, Eippert, Fink, Fischer, Gaier, Gall, Ganther, Gieck, Hannemann, Harsch, Heer, Helm, Henemann, Hennemann, Hohloch, Horch, Jäger, Kaefer, Kaierleber, Keplen, Kludt, Koeplin, Koepplin, Koeppling, Kollert, Kraemer, Kreis, Kurtz, Lang, Losing, Mattheis, Moessner, Moser, Nathan, Neher, Neumueller, Pfaff, Renner, Reule, Rieger, Roehm, Roth, Schaal, Schaffner, Schall, Schauer, Scheu, Schlaht, Schlechy, Schmidt, Schmied, Schock, Schwaderer, Schweitzer, Siegmund, Siffermann, Solotarenko, Stefan, Steinbachoh, Strohmeier, Tetz, Wetzel, Whittmayer, Wiessner, Witmeier, Wittmaier, Wohl, Wolf, Wolgemut.
Population
Year Pop.
1881 367
1882 372
1883 417
1884 407
1885 401
1886 481
1887 367
1888 367
1890 367
1892 297
1894 477
1896 477
1897 437
1898 437
1900 478
1901 478
1902 478
1903 498
1904 498/505
1905 541
1906 540
1907 505
1908 445
1909 450
1910 512
1911 512
1912 512
1913 532
1914 524/452
1915 524
1919 645
1926 680
Mayors
1881-83 Johann Heer
1884-86 Heinrich Fischer
1887-1890 Eborb. Strohmaier
1892 Johann Heer
1894, 96-98 Heinrich Fink
1900-02 Johann Eippert
1903 F. Wittmaier
1904-06 Johannes Eigert
1907-09 Johannes Heer II
1910-12 W. Eippert
1913-15 Daniel Schall
Schoolmasters
Neu Freudental Lutheran Parish
1881-82 Emm. Heinrich Kludt
1882-90 Heinrich Kludt
1892, 1894 Johannes Bippus
1896-1915 Jakob Wetzler
Images
Bibliography
[Arcanum-1872] – “Russia (1872).” Arcanum Adatbázis Kft. maps.arcanum.com/en/map/russia-1872. 1872. [This map, although not identified on the website, is probably the work of Theodor Friedrich Schubert (1789-1865) a.k.a. Fedor Fedorovich Shubert. The 1860 and 1872 versions of this map appear on other map websites identified only as by "Schubert."]
[BSGR] – “Black Sea German Research.” Website. n.d. www.blackseagr.org/.
[Glückstal-2004] – Rudolf, Homer ed. The Glückstalers in New Russia and North America: A Bicentennial Collection of History, Genealogy and Folklore. Pierre, SD: State Pub. & Printing, 2004.
[Glückstal-2021] – Glückstal Colonies Research Association. Glückstal Colonies Research Association 2021 Data Drive. Frisco, TX, 2021.
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[Mertens] – Mertens, Ulrich, Allyn Brosz, Alex Herzog, and Thomas Stangl. German-Russian handbook: a reference book for Russian German and German Russian history and culture with place listings of former German settlement areas. Fargo, ND: Germans from Russia Heritage Collection (GRHC) Publications. 2010. Digitized version.
[OdKal] – Neuer Haus- und Landwirthschaftskalender für deutsche Aussiedler in südlicher Russland auf das Jahr ... [New house and farming calendar for German emigrants in Southern Russia for the year ...] Odessa: Druck und Verlag von L. Nitzsche, [published 1863-1915]. Digitized versions of 1906, 1909, 1910 and 1913.
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[Schnurr1] – Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das Religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen: Evangelischer Teil. [Churches and Religious Life of the Russian Germans: Protestant Part.] 2d ed. Stuttgart: Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, 1978.
[Tiraspol-1886] – “Карта Тираспольского уезда с обозначением населенных пунктов и земских дач, принятых за единицы исследования, и виноградников.” [Map of Tiraspol County with the designation of settlements and zemstvo dachas, taken as survey units, and vineyards.] Russian Empire. https://bit.ly/tiraspol-district. 1886.
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