As I said, after 1944 Ukrainian Rohrbach had been renamed to Novosvetlovka. According to Census 2001, about 1410 inhabitants are living there.
The village has a high school (314 pupils and 31 teacher), a culture center with 550 seats, two libraries with 23.4 thousand books, ambulant clinic with three paramedics, kindergarten with 140 children, seven stores, one eating house, sewing classroom, post office, PBX with 50 numbers and a savings bank.
Some of German offsprings from the U.S. or Canada come here to take pictures and to commemorate their ancestors. Here below you'll find some photos from that blog:
http://hin-und-zuruck.blogspot.de/
Typical houses:
The transportation is the same as 100 years ago)))
The Ukranian name of Rohrbach today:
Buildings of the past:
Offspring of German colonists from the USA and the memorial plate on the occasion of 200 jubilee years :
Museum dedicated to German colonists:
Typical German houses which are used till our days:
General view:
German rests:
My heart is beating faster when I figure out how my great grandparents walked and lived there...
