Re: I found Olganowka / Olgino

Jerry Frank †, Freitag, 13.10.2006, 04:33 (vor 7131 Tagen) @ Jerry Frank †

By browsing some of my maps around Olewsk, I found Olganowka and have confirmed that it was also known as Olgino.

First I have a map "Das Deutschtum in Russisch-Wolhynien", Verband der Russlanddeutschen e.V. Berlin, bearbeitet von Andreas Mergenthaler. This map was used by Karl Stumpp and was found among the Captured War Documents on microfilm at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. I do not know the source that Mergenthaler used for this map. It is marked up in several places with handwritten additions and corrections, presumably made by Stumpp or his staff. It has a number of significant errors on it. However, it does show Olgino, roughly 8 km north-northeast of Olewsk. I show it on my map of Volhynia but do not have a topographical map that shows it. This was a remote settlement area with only 3 villages indicated as having German residents.

Second, I have a topographical map, Russland 1:100,000 Truppenausgabe dated 1943 and it is based on a previous Russian map from 1932. It shows Olganowka in precisely the same location as Mergenthaler shows for Olgino.

If you use this modern map M-35-032 you will not find it shown but go to vertical lines 48 and 50 and look down from the top. The first village you see is Andrejewka. Olganowka was about 2 or 3 km SW of there.

Jerry Frank