13 January 2017

Neudorf, Tiraspol District, Odessa

When Neudorf, a Mother colony founded in Karamanova valley in 1809, was being surveyed, Councilor Rosenkampf asked those around him for suggestions as to what to name the new village. Someone suggested Neustadt.

"We are not going to build a city, but only a village," Rosenkampf said.  "It shall be called Neudorf."
And so it was.

When colonists arrived Neudorf, there were three khutors (small, isolated farms), three wells and one dessiatine (2.7 acres or 1.1 hectare) of vineyards.

Plat map of Neudorf.
Source: Homesteaders on the Steppe, p. 350-351
Each settler received 51,580 rubles for subsistence, 36,484 rubles for settlement and 3,360 rubles for seed, for a total of 91,424 rubles.  This is about $1,541 US dollars today.

By 1914, there were 100 full farms and even more half and quarter farms. The community owned 1,154 horses, 1,196 cows, 564 colts and calves, 362 sheep and 820 pigs.


Year   Population
1816    591
1858   1685
1881   2760
1890   3388
1903   1956
1907   1951
1915   1755
1926   1891
1943   2401


Location of Neudorf


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