Ostrog circuit Mennonite villages

There were several Mennonite villages in the Ostrog, Volhynia, area that were settled by Prussian Mennonites from the Schwetz, (Przechowka, also referred to as Culm or Graudenz Mennonites) Prussia, area.  There were also other Mennonite villages in Volhynia that were inhabited by Swiss Mennonites.  Documentation exists that my Ratzlaff ancestors lived in several of these villages including Karolswalde, Zabara, Antonovka, Leeleva, and Mensiliski.  My Voth, Wedel and Nickel ancestors, who married into the Ratzlaff family, also lived in Karolsberge and Gruenthal.  Some records list ancestors as being from Ostroger.  It could refer to the town or county of Ostrog.  For more information on Russian Mennonite villages, see: http://www.mennonitegenealogy.com/russia/.  In regards to the Volhynian villages, the following chart lists the ones of which I’m aware:

German  Name	Russian  Name	A.K.A.	Settlement  Date	Province	Colony	Mother Colony
Antonovka			before 1821	Volhynia	Karolswalde	Culm-Gaudenz, Prussia
Fuerstendorf	Lesna	Leeleva, Lebwa, Lesnaja, Nikitska	before 1874	Volhynia	Karolswalde	Culm-Gaudenz, Prussia
Fuerstental	Kustarna		about 1870	Volhynia	Karolswalde	Culm-Gaudenz, Prussia
Jadvinin	Novosilka		about 1808	Volhynia	Karolswalde	Culm-Gaudenz, Prussia
Karolsberge			about 1827	Volhynia	Karolswalde	Culm-Gaudenz, Prussia
Karolswalde	Prykerdonne	Holendry Slobodskie, Karlswalde	about 1801	Volhynia	Karolswalde	Culm-Gaudenz, Prussia
Waldheim	Meselski	Menziliski		Volhynia	Karolswalde	Culm-Gaudenz, Prussia
	Stanislawka		?	Volhynia	Karolswalde	Culm-Gaudenz, Prussia
	Michailowka		?	Volhynia	Karolswalde	Culm-Gaudenz, Prussia
Gruental	Moshchanytsya	Moszczanica	about 1877	Volhynia	Karolswalde	Culm-Gaudenz, Prussia
Michalin			1798	Volhynia
Dosidorf	Zabara	Zabarskie		Volhynia
Waldheim	Solianka			Volhynia
Heinrichsdorf			1848	Volhynia		Waldheim, Molotschna by way of Karolswalde
Bereza				Volhynia
Horodyszce				Volhynia
Jozefin				Volhynia
Lindental				Volhynia
Melanienwald				Volhynia
Zofyovka				Volhynia

The following map is taken from the Mennonite Atlas.  It shows most of the Mennonite villages in Volhynia, including those that weren’t associated with Karolswalde.  Note that Michalin, which is not marked on this map, was located just south of Berdichev, which would be the extreme lower right-hand corner of this map.

The following maps show the villages that were in the Karolswalde area.  The first map was produced by the Austrians in the very early 1900s.  Moszczanica (Gruental) can be seen just NE of Ostrog.  Several of the other villages appear south of Ostrog.  Leeleva is marked as Nikitska:

Finally, this last map was produced by the Polish Army in the 1920s.  This map indicates the locations of some of the later villages, Mezelski, Stanislavka and Michailowka, as well as Leeleva (marked as Lesna on this map).  Note that most of these locations are preceeded by “Kol” meaning “colony”.  Fuerstental, marked as Kustarna, can also be seen to the extreme right: