Friday, April 6, 2012

Przechowka Mennonites move into the Netzebruch

For various reasons, Mennonites began to leave Prussia by the mid-1700s.  In 1765, several families from the Przechowka congregation moved to the Netzebruch area near Driesen (Drezhdenko in Polish) which was in the Neumark area of Brandenburg.  These families founded the villages of Neu-Dessau, Franzthal and Brenkenhoffswalde.  http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/N478.html
Central Eastern Europe, 1782:


In 1791, other Przechowka Mennonites settled near Machnowka, just south of Berdichev, in Volhynian Russia.  http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/M5000.html/?searchterm=volhynia.
By 1819, the Przechowka Mennonites began travelling to the Molotschna Mennonite Colony in South Russia and by 1830 the Przechowka congregation in Prussia was mostly extinct.  Przechowka was the mother congregation of the Alexanderwohl and Gnadenfeld villages of the Molotschna Colony.  http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/A44239.html
Ukraine in the mid 1800s:



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  1. UnknownOctober 22, 2014 at 12:08 PM

    I don't think my first post went through, but forgive me if I'm repeating myself. I gotta imagine we're related. My great grandfather moved from the Netherlands to Kansas via NYC in the late 1800's. I believe his name was Benjamin. My grandfather was born in Kansas in 1916 or 17. His name was Peter Ratzlaff. I don't know if any of that sounds familiar to you, I haven't been able to find much.

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