Holy Trinity Cathedral is a ruinate church in the
German Catholic
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settlement of Kandel, now
Lymanske in
Rozdilna Raion
Rozdilna Raion ( uk, Роздільнянський район) is a raion (district) in Odesa Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Rozdilna. Population:
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,
Odesa Oblast,
Ukraine.
Description
In 1892, Holy Trinity Cathedral was built in
Neo-Roman
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style and consecrated by Bishop Anton Zerr. In contrast to the
Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in nearby Selz, which was built with bricks, Holy Trinity Cathedral was built of
limestone, a common material of the Black Sea region at that time. The church had a marble altar, and many sacred statues made by H. Ad. Vogl from
Hall in Tirol
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near
Innsbruck
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. The
Stations of the Cross
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and Holy Tomb were by Ferdinand Stuflesser and other statues from
St. Ulrich Gröden adorned the inside of the church.
History
left, 250px, View of the church in 1934
In 1808, an order of
Tsar Alexander I went forth "About providing assistance and
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to foreign sodbusters in
Novorossiya." This order was the beginning of the second colonization wave by German settlers to Novorossiya (the modern region north of the
Black Sea,
Bessarabia
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and the
Crimea). The colonists named their settlements according to the places left in their native land. In the territory of the modern Odesa oblast there were two colonial districts: Libentalskyi and Kuchurhanskyi. All colonies were planned according to traditional German villages, with a Lutheran or Catholic church,
volost administration, and school in its center.
Kuchurhansklyi colonial district was founded in 1808 out of six colonies with an administrative center in Selz (urban-type settlement Lymanske). An administration center and the colony of Kandel were founded the same year by colonists from
Alsace who were mainly Catholic. At that time in Kandel (in Soviet times renamed into Rybalske), there were nearly 3,000 settlers, and two schools.
Destruction
In the summer and autumn of 1919, German colonists from Odesa initiated the revolt against
Prodrazvyorstka (food apportionment, the partition of the requested total amount as obligations from the suppliers) and mobilizing to the Soviet
Red Army. After the troops of
Denikin's volunteer army entered southern Ukraine, Germans formed a special colonial battalion, that weakened the strength of the Red army.
After the defeat of the revolt, the cathedral, as well as the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in nearby Selz, was closed. During the Soviet period, it was used as grain storage, and later it suffered a fire that nearly destroyed it. The ceiling fell down, and today only walls and columns are left. It is currently used by the local orphanage for coal storage.
Gallery
File:Кірха, Кандель, фото 1.jpg, Front view of the church
File:Trinity church, entrence.jpg, Entrance to the church
File:Trinity church4.jpg, Back view of the church – the gates of the storage
File:Trinity church2.JPG, Side view of the church
File:Trinity church1.JPG, Side view of the church
External links
*{{Commons category inline, Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Lymanske
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1892
German diaspora in Ukraine
