Schoental
The village of Schoental was on Eagle
Creek, four and one-half miles north and one and one-half miles
west of what later became the site of Otis. There are a Schoental,
a Schoenfeldt, and a Shoendorf closely located together in Russia
in the area from which those who settled around Otis came. Schoental
was a predecessor of Otis that did not survive after the railroad
attracted settlement to the south.
The Evangelical Trinity Lutheran congregation
was founded in Schoental by forty-seven families on February 14,
1877. The village of Schoental began to fade away in 1886 as the
farmers abandoned the European tradition and moved out of the
village to live on their homesteads. Some of these same settlers
later established businesses in Otis.
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Schoental Map
Sources
Information from Judith
Reynolds
Algrim, Gene, et al.
Rush County Kansas...125 Years in Story & Pictures.
LaCrosse: The Rush County News and Creative Printing, 2001.
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