Stepove, Mykolaiv Raion

Stepove (Ukrainian: Степове) is a village in Mykolaiv Raion, Mykolaiv Oblast in southern Ukraine. Its population was 1869 in the 2001 Ukrainian Census.[1] Along with another village of Zelenyi Hai, it forms a rural community Stepivska Silska Rada.

This article is about a village in Mykolaiv Raion, Mykolaiv Oblast. For other populated places with the same name, see Stepove.

Stepove Степове
Village
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Coordinates: 47°11′04″N 31°31′12″E
Country	Ukraine
Province	Mykolaiv Oblast
District	Mykolaiv Raion
Community	Stepove rural council
Founded	1809
Former name	Karlsruhe (1809—1944)
Area
• Total	85.116 km^2 (32.863 sq mi)
Population  (2001)
• Total	1,869
• Density	22/km^2 (57/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	57107
Area code	+380 512
Climate	Dfa
Website	http://rada.gov.ua/

History

The village was first founded as Karlsruhe (after Karlsruhe) in 1809 by Catholic Germans.[2] The settlement was part of the Beresan Colonial District of Odessa region, Kherson Governorate. In 1886 the population of the German colony of Karlsruhe was 2,132 people; in which time it was part of the Landau parish, Odessa district, Kherson Governorate. There were 190 farmsteads, a Roman Catholic church, a high school, 2 benches and a Renna cellar. From 1881–1885, according to the project of the architect Corfu, the Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul was built.

In the years 1925–1939, the Karlsruhe colony was part of Karl-Liebknechtovsky's German National District of Mykolaiv region (from Odess'ka oblast since 1932).

Today, the ruins of the 19th-century neo-gothic style Roman Catholic church still remain. It is somewhat bricked up and its wooden roof and original steeple are gone. Several pictures of The church dated from the 1930s and 40s were published in a German language book called “Die Kirchen und das Religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutsche”. Pictures from 1942 and 1943 show the steeple missing the peak and cross but still with the stone base. The steeple was destroyed by The soviets as they removed crosses from churches all over the Ukraine. It is reported that the steeple was destroyed in 1934. It was then rebuilt during the German occupation and destroyed yet again when soviet forces advanced in mid 1944. Today, the main stone body of the steeple is now completely gone. The church could have been battle damaged during the nazis advance through the area in 1941 or their retreat a few years later. Battle damage is present on its exterior from small arms fire and shrapnel from undated events.

See also

• Sulz, Ukraine, an abandoned village, once part of the same Berezan Colony
• History of German settlement in Central and Eastern Europe
• Beresan Colony

References

1. "Stepove, Mykolaiv Oblast, Mykolaiv Raion". Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
2. "Catholic temple of Saint Peter and Paul in the village of Stepove (Католический храм Святого Петра и Павла в с.Степовое)". ukrainaincognita (in Russian). Archived from the original on 23 July 2017. Retrieved 23 July 2017.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)

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