Prikumskoe

Prikumskoe (Russian: Прикумское) is a rural locality (a selo) in Stavropol Krai, in southern Russia.

Prikumskoe
Прикумское
Location of Prikumskoe
Prikumskoe
Location of Prikumskoe
Prikumskoe
Prikumskoe (European Russia)
Prikumskoe
Prikumskoe (Europe)
Coordinates: 44°14′13″N 42°54′07″E
CountryRussia
Federal subjectStavropol Krai
Founded1868
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK [1])
Postal code(s)[2]
357223
OKTMO ID07721000296

Location

Prikumskoe is located in the North Caucasus, around 15 km west of Mineralnye Vody, and around 20 km northwest of the health resort city Pyatigorsk. The village lies on the left bank of Kuma River at 400 m above the sea level, to the north of the so-called Camel Mountain with two distinctive humps.

History

The village was founded in 1868 by German Christians affiliated with the Temple Society.[3][4][5] The original name of the village was Tempelhof, which comes from the German words Tempel (i.e. temple) and Hof (i.e. yard or farm), in reference to the religious views of the founders.

In the autumn of 1866, Johannes Dreher, Abram Dück and Friedrich Tietz from the Molotschna came to the Caucasus in search of a suitable place for settlement. In the valley of the river Kuma they found an uninhabited piece of land of about 10,000 desyatinas belonging to the Georgian Prince Orbeliani.

In 1868, the representatives of several German colonies travelled to Tiflis, then part of the Russian Empire, to visit the Price Orbeliani: brothers Fickel and Härter from Bessarabia, Abram Dück, Johann Schmidt, Johannes Lange from the Molotschna, Johann Gutwin and Paul Tietz from Igren by Ekaterinoslav. The Prince allowed them to rent his land by the river Kuma for 30 years, at 25 kopeks per desyatina. The colonies Tempelhof and Orbelyanovka were founded on this land in 1868. About 20 families who came from the Gnadenfeld district of the Molotschna Colony and from Ekaterinoslav settled in Tempelhof.

Germans planted vineyards on the rented land and founded a wine-making company called Unitas.[3]

When the rental agreement had expired, the residents of both colonies moved about 200 km to the east, on the land of about 4500 desyatinas given by the Crown. There the former inhabitants of Orbelyanovka founded the village Romanovka and the former inhabitants of Tempelhof - the village Olgino.

After the departure of the German colonists, Prince Orbeliani sold the estate to the Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolayevich of Russia who owned the land for several years and had a wine cellar there.[6][7] Then Tempelhof was purchased by the Crown Land Office which had continued to cultivate vineyards there up to the time of the October Revolution.

Notable residents

References
  1. "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  2. Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
  3. Damals am Kaukasus. Ein Erzählbuch über Entstehung, Blütezeit und Untergangs der deutschen Tempelsiedlungen im Nordkaukasus-Gebiet (in German). Stuttgart, Germany: Tempelgesellschaft in Deutschland. 2001. pp. 46, 57, 73, 87.
  4. Lange, Walter (2013). Deutsche Siedlungen im Nordkaukasus. Historiker über die Rolle der Deutschen in der Geschichte Russlands (in German). Lichtzeichen Verlag. p. 199. ISBN 978-3-86954-087-0.
  5. Tamcke, Martin; Heinz, Andreas (2005). Die Suryoye und ihre Umwelt: 4. Deutsches Syrologen-Symposium in Trier 2004 (in German). Münster, Germany: LIT Verlag. p. 207. ISBN 3-8258-8912-2.
  6. Zatsarinny, V. V. (2016). "Chapter 6". Put zarozhdeniya Hristianstva na Stavropolye Путь зарождения Христианства на Ставрополье [The way Christianity came to the Stavropol Territory] (in Russian). Stavropol.
  7. Cheda, Giorgio; Michele, Raggi (1995). Dalla Russia senza amore [From Russia without Love] (in Italian). Locarno: Armando Dadò Editore. p. 120. ISBN 88-86315-20-1.
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