Blumenheim (Brazol Colony, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine)
Blumenheim (also called Verbovskoye), a village in the Mennonite Brazol settlement in the Russian province of Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine), district of Alexandrovsk, was founded in 1869, contained 3,360 dessiatines (about 9,000 acres), numbered (1911) 80 inhabitants and had a school attended (1911) by 20 children. In Blumenheim there had also been a Mennonite congregation with the same name since 1869, a subsidiary of the Lichtenau church.
Bibliography
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: v. I, 238.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, pp. 371-372. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.
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