Subseries 3 - Kronau District

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CA MHSBC 112-15-3

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Kronau District

Date(s)

  • 1941-1943 (Creation)

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130 cm of textual material
Location: Box 251

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(1896-1982)

Biographical history

Karl Stumpp, 1896-1982, was a world renowned authority of German-Russian history. He was often called "The Treasurer of Lost People". While teaching in Russia, he became fascinated in the movements and history of Germans from Russia. He was the chief editor of "Folk auf dem Weg" (1957-1963) and "Heimatbuecher", (1954-1966). His maps give migration routes, village locations of mother colonies and daughter colonies. Included on the maps is detailed information regarding religion, and size of villages, and extinct villages.

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The subseries consists of the following files:
1) Alexanderfeld, established 1872, 1 file, village map
2) Alexanderkrone, established1883, 1 file, village map
3) Altenau, established 1873, 1 file, village map
4) Blumenort , established 1873, 1 file, village map
5) Deutchendorf, established 1942, 1 file, village map
6) Eigental, established 1865, 1 file, no map
7) Friedensfeld, established 1872, 1 file, village map
8) Fuerstenfeld, established 1868, 1 file, village map
9) Gnadenfeld, established 1877, 1 file, village map
10) Landau, established 1868-1869, 1 file, village map
11) Muensterberg, established 1872, 1 file, village map
12) Neu Halbstadt, established 1872, 1 file, village map
13) Neu Manheim, established 1862-1864, 1 file, village map
14) Nikolaifeld, established 1872, 1 file, village map
15) Nikolaital, established 1862-1864, 1 file, village map
16) Orloff #6, established 1873, 1 file, village map
17) Orloff, Marienburg, Statistics, 1 file, no map
18) Reinfeld, established 1875, 1 file, village map
19) Rosenort, established 1875, 1 file, village map
20) Sandfeld #10, established 1942, 1file, village map
21) Schoenau, established 1877, 1 file, village map
22) Schoental, established 1869, 1 file, village map
23) Steinfeld, established 1879, 1 file, village map
24) Tiege, established 1872, 1 file, no map
25) Neu Schoensee, established 1871, 1 file, village map

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25 villages were established in the Kronau District Area. Many landless Mennonites purchased land in the District of Kronau when the population grew and could not be sustained in the Molotschna colony.

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Kronau Colony is a daughter colony of the Molotschna Colony. It was founded between 1869 and 1870 by predominantly Evangelical Lutheran Germans from the area of the Taurien governate.
Captured German War Documents are the work of a team headed by Kommando Karl Stumpp. Mennonite minister Gerhard Fast was part of this team. Most of the material is a detailed demographic, cultural, racial and census survey of Nazi-occupied Ukraine in 1941-1943. Reports include charts and maps, relating to towns and villages describing individuals, families and ethnic groups (German, Jewish, Russian and Ukrainian), mixed marriages, village history, medical services, economic, cultural, religious, educational activities, church matters, farming and agriculture, employment, economic and political conditions under Communism. Statistical material of 327 communities was gathered.

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  • German

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Captured German War Documents

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