Blumenfeld (Brazol Colony, Dnipropetrovsk,
Ukraine)
Blumenfeld (often called Sagornoye), a village and Mennonite
church in the Brazol colony in the Russian province of Ekaterinoslav
(now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine), district of Alexandrovsk. The village
was founded in 1864, contained 6,611 dessiatines (ca. 18,000 acres),
numbered (1911) 337 inhabitants and had a school attended by 20
pupils. The Mennonite congregation of the same name was organized in
1872, members of which also lived in the neighboring villages,
Silberfeld and Blumenheim, and which formed a subsidiary of the
Lichtenau-Petershagen church. Ministers who served the congregation
were D. Janzen, G. Wiens, and P. Janzen.