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]