Kamarovka

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This article is about the German-Russian village of Kassel, South Russia (today known as Kamarovka, Ukraine). For the city of Kassel in Hesse, Germany, see Kassel.

Kamarovka is a village in the Odessa Oblast subdivision (province) of western Ukraine. It was originally founded in 1810 with the name Kassel and later renamed as Kamarovka.

1 Geography
2 History
3 References
4 Notes

[edit] Geography

Kamarovka is in the Odessa Oblast subdivision (province) of western Ukraine, a few miles south of the city of Pavlivka just east of the Moldovan border and about 80 miles northwest of the city of Odessa on the north coast of the Black Sea.

[edit] History

Kamarovka was founded as Kassel in 1810. It is part of the Bergdorf, Glückstal ^[1], Kassel, Neudorf area of Odessa in Ukraine, which was a colony for German immigrants who left certain areas of Germany/Hungary (Hessen, Baden, Württemberg (now Baden-Württemberg), Alsace (now part of France), the Palatinate, or Hungary) in 1808-1810.^[2] The immigrants who founded Kassel were mostly Evangelical Baptists. Czar Alexander encouraged German immigration into the Ukrainian areas along the Black Sea, acquired from the Ottoman Empire in 1804. The Germans were fleeing the oppressive occupation of Southwest Germany by Napoleon’s armies (until his defeat at Waterloo in 1815). Although the Russians discouraged the practice of any religion other than Greek Orthodoxy, the official church of Russia, Czar Alexander granted religious freedom, along with other special privileges, to the German immigrants. In 1871, Czar Alexander II revoked some of the special privileges (primarily exemption from military service) originally granted to the German immigrants by Czar Alexander, and shortly after that many of them began to migrate to the United States, especially to the Dakotas.^[3]