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The 1871 Gothic Lutheran church in Asureti, formerly the German colony of Elisabethal
Culture & HistorySep 11, 2026

Elisabethal: The German Village Near Tbilisi That Disappeared in 1941

Less than an hour from Tbilisi stands a village of Gothic architecture, half-timbered houses and a German cemetery. Elisabeththal was founded in 1818 by Swabian Pietists who left Württemberg amid famine and hardship in the aftermath of the 1815 Tambora eruption in Indonesia. For more than a century, the settlement developed into a prosperous German agricultural community. Then, in the autumn of 1941, its German population was deported to Central Asia. This is the story of Asureti — and of the grape that still carries a German name.

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