Prangenau (Molotschna Mennonite Settlement, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)
Prangenau, a village in the Molotschna Mennonite settlement in South Russia, was established in 1824 on the right bank of the Yushanlee River, east of Friedensruh and Neukirch, and west of Steinfeld, about 50 miles from Berdyansk. The first elder, Gerhard Wall, proposed that the village be named for Prangenau of West Prussia. Originally the village had 23 families, about half of whom had come from the Chortitza Mennonite settlement of South Russia, and the others from the Marienburg and Tilsit areas of Prussia. The village was destroyed after World War II.
Bibliography
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. III, 388.
Wolter, Margarete. "Die Gemeindeberichte von 1848 der deutschen Siedlungen am Schwarzen Meer." Sammluug Georg Liebbrandt IV. Leipzig, 1941: 151 f.
| Author(s) | Benjamin H Unruh |
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| Date Published | 1959 |
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