In 1808 by order of Tsar Alexander I went forth “About providing assistance and headright to foreign sodbusters in Novorossiya.
This order was the beginning of the second colonization wave by German settlers to Novorossiya at that time (modern region north of the Black Sea, Bessarabia and the Crimea).
The colonists named their settlements according to the places left in their native land.
On the territory of modern Odessa 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 administration center in Selz (Ger.
Selz), today urban-type settlement Lymanske.
The district included six Catholic colonies.
An administration center, as well as German colony Kandel was 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, two schools.
In 1808 by order of Tsar Alexander I went forth “About providing assistance and headright to foreign sodbusters in Novorossiya. This order was the beginning of the second colonization wave by German settlers to Novorossiya at that time (modern region north of the Black Sea, Bessarabia and the Crimea). The colonists named their settlements according to the places left in their native land. On the territory of modern Odessa 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 administration center in Selz (Ger. Selz), today urban-type settlement Lymanske. The district included six Catholic colonies. An administration center, as well as German colony Kandel was 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, two schools.
Holy Trinity Cathedral (Lymanske)