Tschollo.

Johanna., Dienstag, 22.04.2003, 09:35 (vor 8375 Tagen)

For years I have been trying to locate the settlement of Tschollo in Grodno but without any success.
A passport written in Russian and issued in 1911 states following: Tschollo, Maev?/Maevski?, Pruzhany, Grodno. The name of Tschollo is also stated in a confirmation certificate written in German and issued by the clergyman of the Protestant church of Tschollo.
The settlement was established around 1840/50 by 7 families probably coming from Silesia/Schlesien. In 1911 the mayor sold his property to the Tsar, Nicolai II, who wanted to extend his hunting ground in the woods of Bialowieza. The settlement was right next to the woods.
The mayor and his family moved to a place near Tutschin in Wolhynia and it is most likely that more families joined them because of intermarriages and prohibition of extension of properties. It may even have been that all 70 families moved and that the settlement from 1911 stopped existing as a community.
Johanna.