Osterwick

From GAMEO
Revision as of 18:54, 20 August 2013 by GameoAdmin (talk | contribs) (CSV import - 20130820)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

Osterwick, a common Mennonite village name. One of the first of the villages settled by the Mennonites of West Prussia in Russia was Osterwick in the Chortitza settlement. It became the seat of one of the largest congregations, with a membership (1905) of 1,571 besides 839 children. In 1812 a village in the same settlement was named Neu-Osterwick. From Russia the name came to the East Reserve and West Reserve of Manitoba, to Hague, SK, and from Canada to Cuauhtemoc, Mexico. In Paraguay, Canadian Mennonites from Manitoba and Saskatchewan founded the village of Osterwick in the west of the Menno Colony. In 1932 the first church in the colony was built here, with a seating capacity of 500. In Osterwick there were in 1934 twenty-seven families with a total of 163 persons.

Bibliography

Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 v. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: v. III, 327.


Author(s) Christian Hege
Date Published 1959

Cite This Article

MLA style

Hege, Christian. "Osterwick." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 18 Apr 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Osterwick&oldid=76741.

APA style

Hege, Christian. (1959). Osterwick. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 18 April 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Osterwick&oldid=76741.



Hpbuttns.png

Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 91. All rights reserved.


©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.

Retrieved from "https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Osterwick&oldid=76741"