Last Updated: 28 July 2003
#2: Leipzig / Bess., Ukraine
in modern times.
From Alfred Hein's Collection
See Leipzig / Bess. Photograph #1
See
Alfred Hein's Photograph List
Important Dates for Leipzig / Bess.:
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Land was owned by General Subanajew and the cabinet advisor known
as Chanov who broke the land into 60 desjantines...
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1814 /15 - German-Russian village of Leipzig was officially
established
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128 families
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Some of the German emigrants had followed their leaders of Martin Friess,
Friedrich Riess and Peter Steinke to Leipzig
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Most did not have any leadership and came independently from Prussia,
Saxony, Bavaria, Mecklenburg, Baden, Kurpfalz, Pommerania and Danzig
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The lack of common roots was what people blamed the villagers ' difficulty
to gain unity
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The language which came as the dominate speech was High German...
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Many were Separatists [a religious movement of the times]
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Listed are three of the first colonists, (1) Barbara,
nee Neighardt, Haarlos b. 1771 fr. Drachenbronn / Weissenburg, Alsace d.
1858, and her daughter (2)
Katharina , nee
Haarlos, Hager
b. 1794 d. 21May 1854 Borodino #1883189/2 488 15
[Rec. as migr. fr. Drachenbronn, Alsace [Elsass] to Leipzig / Bess, dau.
of Army Surgeon, Dr. Haarlos and Barbara, nee
Neighardt . There is no mention
of Dr. Haarlos whom may have died while serving in the army. Katharina
had m (3)
.JOHANN BENARD HAGER
b. 11 Nov 1791 Ochsenburg n. Heibronn, Wu One of
the first children born in Leipzig was Johann and Katharina, nee Haarlos,
Hager's daughter Elizabeth ...
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Village was named in honor of those who fought in the Battle of Leipzig
(18 Oct 1813) under the victorious Tsar Alexander I and Napoleon's Army.
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Each colonist received:
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a yoke of oxen
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one cow
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one wooden wagon
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plow
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harrow
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spade
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pick
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two sickles
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hammer
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food stuff
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daily allowance of 5 kopecks per person
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1815 the villagers who were part of the Lutheran community was taken
into the Parish of Tarutino
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1821 to 1823
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1826
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1823
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1827 Report showed the village had achieved:
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The homes were:
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only one house of stone
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12 wicker [reed] houses which had been plastered
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3 were sod houses
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2 earthen houses
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100 wells
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126 orchards and vineyards
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Domestic Animals
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254 horses
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1,118 cattle
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644 sheep
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Grasshopper Plague repeated...
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1829
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1831
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1833
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Failed Harvest
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Livestock Epidemic
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* See Hoeger/ Hager/Heger Families
and Harlose Family
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1843 - fifteen more families joined the Leipzig colony from Worms /
Od and the Cherson [Kherson] area.
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1847
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1848
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1855
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Cholera Epidemic
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Livestock Epidemic
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1860
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There is mentioned that immigration from Leipzig had already started
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1868
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Second school was completed
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There is mention that teachers had been given homes in which to
live...
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1894
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Administration District Offices were built or were in the process
of being built as needed due to having the local train depot for the area....
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1920
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King Ferdinand I von Hohenzollern and his Queen visited Leipzig
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Parish ....Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert
Kern, pps. 137-138
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Village ....Homeland Book of the Bessarabian Germans, text by Albert
Kern, pps. 141-142
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Soil in and near Leipzig is black humus and sand
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vineyards and forest trees grew quite well in this soil
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1913 to 1915 the railroad between Leipzig and Akkerman which ended in
Vladivostok, Siberia.... was completed in time for the soldiers to be transported
for WW I ......
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1926
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First prayer house construction began.... but the Separatists interferred
for the following 11 years..... [note: This statement is confusing
because there are records showing lightening struck the village church in
1893; evidently the report was religious attitudes were anti-Separatists..
and in 1907 a corner stone was laid for a Gothic church which was suppose
to hold 1,000 worshipers...]
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1927 Report:
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Houses:
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963 stone and brick houses
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648 horse stables
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502 barns
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135 dripping wells
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121 artesian wells
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995 houses
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1,239 cattle
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3,801 sheep
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crops were:
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linseed (flax)
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Castor beans
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soy beans
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wheat
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oats
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corn
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2 Sept 1927 a major cloud burst caused the Kogaelnik River to churn
into a "ocean of fury" and it affected Leipzig....
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1939
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More than half of the German-Russian families had left Leipzig...
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1940