Velykokomarivka (Ukrainian: Великокомарівка) is a village in Rozdilna Raion of Odesa Oblast (province) of southern Ukraine.

[3] The immigrants who founded Kassel were all Protestants, the majority Evangelical [Lutheran], a minority Reformed.

The Germans were fleeing the oppressive occupation of southwest Germany by Napoleon's armies (until his defeat at Waterloo in 1815).

Although the Russians discouraged the practice of any religion other than Russian Orthodoxy, the official church of Russia, Tsar Alexander I granted religious freedom and other special privileges, such as local autonomy and temporary tax relief, to the German immigrants.

In 1871, Tsar Alexander II revoked some of the special privileges (including exemption from military service) originally granted to the German immigrants by Tsar Alexander I, and shortly after that many of them began to migrate to the United States, especially to the Dakota Territory.