Kushchove Explained

Kushchove
Native Name:Ukrainian: Кущове
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Oblast
Subdivision Type2:Raion
Subdivision Name2:Orikhiv Raion
Established Title:Founded
Established Date:1856 (as Hutterdorf)
Leader Title:Mayor
Area Total Km2:0.801
Population As Of:2021
Population Total:191
Population Density Km2:auto
Pushpin Map:Ukraine Zaporizhia Oblast#Ukraine
Pushpin Label Position:right
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Kushchove in Zaporizhia Oblast##Location of Kushchove in Ukraine
Pushpin Label:Kushchove
Elevation M:59
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:70513
Area Code:+380 6141

Kushchove (Ukrainian: Кущове Kushchove) is a small village in Orikhiv Raion, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine, some 35 km east of Zaporizhia. It has population of 191 people.

Originally it was founded as Hutterdorf also known as Kucheva (German: Kutschewa) as a Hutterite village in 1856.

Some 35 Hutterite families under the leadership of Georg Waldner (1794–1857) left Johannesruh and moved to Hutterdorf, where they had purchased 1,500 desiatinas of land to reestablish communal living. In 1874 all inhabitants, except two families who joined the Mennonites, moved to the United States, where they resettled in Bon Homme Hutterite Colony in South Dakota.[1]

Notes and References

  1. [John A. Hostetler]