Monument Dedication
Monument Dedication in Moldova Remembering the Germans from Russia
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Dedication ceremony held May 24, 2002 at the village of Glinnoje, Moldova.
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The Germans from Russia Heritage Collection (GRHC), NDSU Libraries, Fargo, and the Glueckstal Colonies Research Association (GCRA) are pleased to announce the dedication program of the Glueckstal Colonies Memorial Monument held May 24, 2002, at the village of Glinnoje, Moldova (former Black Sea German village of Glueckstal, South Russia, founded in
1804), today located near Odessa, Ukraine. Other Glueckstal mother colonies are Bergdorf, Kassel and Neudorf.
Margaret Aman Freeman states: "The monument is dedicated to those who once lived in Glueckstal and endured, and to their descendants wherever they are now scattered. May they always carry with them the good fortune of this valley - the best virtues of the people known as the Glueckstalers."
Leading the Glueckstal Memorial Dedication Tour group was Michael M. Miller, Germans from Russia Bibliographer; Margaret Aman Freeman, coordinator of GCRA, Redondo Beach, CA; and Janice Huber Stangl, co-author of the book, "Marienberg: Fate of a Village," published by GRHC in 2000. Marienberg is a daughter colony of the Glueckstal District villages, today located in Ukraine.
Between 1872 to 1914, one of four Germans from the Glueckstal villages immigrated to North America, many settling in south-central North Dakota and north-central South Dakota. Later many moved to the Lodi area of central California.
