Holy Trinity Cathedral (Lymanske)
Holy Trinity Cathedral is a ruinate church in the German Catholic settlement of Kandel, now Lymanske in Rozdilna Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine. Description In 1892, Holy Trinity Cathedral was built in Neo-Roman 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 near Innsbruck. The Stations of the Cross and Holy Tomb were by Ferdinand Stuflesser and other statues from St. Ulrich Gröden adorned the inside of the church. History In 1808, an 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 (the 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. In the territory of the modern Odesa oblast there were two colonial districts: Libentalskyi