Neudorf, Russia

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#999933" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="040006e0ddwnfv.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Raile Family</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Raile Family"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id125.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="15001800 Railes"><U>1500-1800 Raile's</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id60.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Plochingen, Germany"><U>Plochingen, Germany</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id102.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Catherine the Great and Alexander I"><U>Catherine the Great and Alexander I</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id123.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Danube River Trip"><U>Danube River Trip</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id119.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hoffnungstal, Russia"><U>Hoffnungstal, Russia</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id124.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Raile Orphans"><U>The Raile Orphans</U></A>   |   <B>Neudorf, Russia</B>   |   <A HREF="id142.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bolsheviks"><U>Bolsheviks</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id115.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="St. Francis, Kansas Yesterday"><U>St. Francis, Kansas - Yesterday</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Maps"><U>Maps</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id57.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Other GermanRussian Families"><U>Other German-Russian Families</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id139.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Scythians"><U>The Scythians</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" background="041bec00esnpes.png"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1adaa750.png" border=0 width="170" height="117" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>The Evangelical Lutheran church  was built by the Germans in 1825 at a cost of 15,000 rubles and consecrated in 1830 with an addition of a new bell. </B></div> <div> <B>                                                     In 1866, it was enlarged. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>                                           It is now used as a community center and museum. </B></div> <div> <B>                                                       </B><I><B>photo by Penny Raile 1996</B></I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#333399" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> </B></I></FONT></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Neudorf, Russia</div> <div> <B>Now known as Karmanova, Moldova</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2b32cc40.png" border=0 width="300" height="196" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> The colony of Neudorf was founded in 1809 by 100 German families immigrating primarily from Württemberg and Alsace upon the invitation of Alexander I, Czar of Russia, grandson of Catherine the Great </div> <bR> <div> When naming the new colony, Councilor Rosenhampf commented on the beautiful setting and said, "We are not going to build a city, but only a village.  It shall be called Neudorf." </div> <bR> <div> When the German colonists arrived in the early 1800's they found 3 isolated farms (Khutors), three wells and one dessiatine of vineyards on the steppe. The settlers received a total of 91,424 rubles from the Imperial Crown for subsistence, settlement and seed.  By 1848, the village increased to 208 families and to 1,896 individuals by 1914. </div> <bR> <div> After the Germans left the village in the late 1800's and early 1900's, the village was renamed Karmanova. Village signs in Ukraine and Moldova are in both Ukrainian and Russian.  Many words can be similar.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1af8b9c0.png" border=0 width="139" height="156" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I>Photo by Penny Raile, 1996</I></FONT></div> <div> Sign outside Neudorf (Karmanova) written in both Ukrainian and Russian.  (Official language of Moldova is Romanian.)</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2b42cab0.png" border=0 width="300" height="171" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     <I>Photo by Penny Raile, 1996</I></div> <div> <B>PRESENT DAY MOLDOVA </B></div> <div> Moldova is the only country in the European part of the former Soviet Union which has experienced large-scale armed conflicts on its territory. In 1992, a civil war in the eastern part of the country, the Dniester region, led to perhaps as many as a thousand deaths. While there is an ethnic element to this conflict, it is probably more apt to describe it as a case of politicized regionalism. The chances that renewed hostilities will break out are, at present, very small. </div> <bR> <div> Location: Eastern Europe, northeast of Romania </div> <div> Climate: moderate winters, warm summers </div> <div> Population: 4,460,838 (July 1999 est.) </div> <div> Languages: Moldovan (official, virtually the same as the Romanian language), Russian, Gagauz (a Turkish dialect) </div> <div> Currency: the Moldovan leu (MLD) (plural lei) was introduced in late 1993 </div> <div> Capital: Chisinau </div> <div> Natural resources: lignite, phosphorites, gypsum</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FAMILY HISTORY"><U><IMG SRC="21728280.png" border=0 width="40" height="40" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FAMILY HISTORY"><U>Back to Family History</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>