Kyrpychne is a village in Melitopol Raion,

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, 20 km from

Melitopol Melitopol ( uk, Меліто́поль, translit=Melitópol’, ; russian: Мелитополь; based on el, Μελιτόπολις - "honey city") is a city and municipality in Zaporizhzhia Oblast in southeastern Ukraine. Melitopol has been ...

. Until 1945 it was known as Hutterthal also spelled Huttertal. It was founded in 1842/3 as a

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village.

Johann Cornies Johann(es) Cornies (20 June 1789 – 13 March 1848) was a Prussian Mennonite settler in the Russian Empire, who became an important agricultural and architectural reformer for the Mennonites, Hutterites and other minorities in the Russian Empire. ...

, who had leased the tract of

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-land on which Hutterthal was founded, helped the Hutterites to get a credit of 15,000

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s and the

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necessary for the winter from the Russian crown. Every family got a piece of land of 65 desiatinas. The settlement prospered from the beginning and by 1846 the entire credit had been paid off. In the 1870s the Hutterites left Russia for the United States and the village was resettled by

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Germans. When the Hutterites settled at Hutterthal in 1842 they numbered 384 people, 185 males and 199 females in 69 families.John A. Hostetler: ''Hutterite Society'', Baltimore, MD, 1974, page 105.

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