Velykokomarivka, Rozdilna Raion

Velykokomarivka () is a village in the Odessa Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It was founded in 1810 with the name Kassel and later renamed as Velykokomarivka.
Geography.
Vekykokomarivka is in the Odessa Oblast subdivision (province) of western Ukraine, just east of the Moldovan border and about 130 kilometres northwest of the city of Odessa.
History.
Velykokomarivka was founded as Kassel in 1810. It is part of the Bergdorf, Glückstal, Kassel, Neudorf area, then part of the Kherson Governorate, which was allocated by the Imperial Russian government to German immigrants who left certain areas of Germany/Hungary (Hesse, Baden, Württemberg (now Baden-Württemberg), Alsace (now part of France), the Palatinate, or Hungary) between 1808 and 1810. The immigrants who founded Kassel were all Protestants, the majority Evangelical [Lutheran], a minority Reformed. Czar Alexander I encouraged immigration from many countries into this area, which was acquired from the Ottoman Empire in 1804. The Germans were fleeing the oppressive occupation of southwest Germany by Napoleon's armies (until his defeat at Waterloo in 1815). Although the Russians discouraged the practice of any religion other than Russian Orthodoxy, the official church of Russia, Czar Alexander I granted religious freedom and other special privileges, such as local autonomy and temporary tax relief, to the German immigrants. In 1871, Czar Alexander II revoked some of the special privileges (including exemption from military service) originally granted to the German immigrants by Czar Alexander I, and shortly after that many of them began to migrate to the United States, especially to the Dakota Territory.