Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Lymanske)

Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – is a ruinate church of the former German Catholic village of Selz, now Lymanske in Rozdilna Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine.

At the beginning of 19th century there was a significant inflow of the German colonists to Novorossiya at that time (modern region north of the Black Sea, Bessarabia and the Crimea).

According to the manifesto of Catherine II from July 22, 1763, foreigners were invited to come to Russia and settle whenever they wanted.

In the beginning of 19th century after the Napoleonic Wars, Germany being occupied by France was found in a tough economic state.

In 1919 German colonists from Odesa initiated the revolt against Prodrazvyorstka (food apportionment, the partition of the requested total amount as obligations from the suppliers) and mobilizing to the Soviet Red Army.

Columns of the church
View of the cathedral in the early 20th century