Biberstein was part of the Lutheran parish headquartered in Bettinger . A new church was built of wood in Biberstein in 1862.
Biberstein was founded as a Lutheran colony on 20 August 1767 by Baron Caneau de Beauregard. It moved to a new location between Bettinger and Schaffhausen along the Volga River in 1770.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
|
|
|
|
| 1769 |
25
|
107
|
76
|
31
|
| 1773 |
46
|
176
|
102
|
74
|
| 1788 |
40
|
221
|
112
|
109
|
| 1798 |
44
|
310
|
156
|
154
|
| 1816 |
85
|
480
|
239
|
241
|
| 1834 |
109
|
813
|
408
|
405
|
| 1850 |
146
|
1,017
|
523
|
494
|
| 1857 |
132
|
1,065
|
535
|
530
|
| 1859 |
116
|
1,029
|
529
|
500
|
| 1883 |
|
1,854
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
1,896
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,899
|
942
|
957
|
| 1905 |
|
2,898
|
|
|
| 1910 |
289
|
2,992
|
1,574
|
1,418
|
| 1912 |
|
3,036
|
|
|
| 1920 |
363*
|
2,440
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
2,023
|
|
|
| 1926** |
271
|
1,535
|
750
|
785
|
| 1931 |
|
2,330***
|
|
|
*Of which 361 households were German.
**Of whom 1,534 (749 male & 785 female) were German, living in 270 households.
***Of whom 2,321 were German.
- Censuses : 1798, 1857
Beratz, Gottieb. The German colonies on the Lower Volga, their origin and early development: a memorial for the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first German settlers on the Volga, 29 June 1764 . Translated by Adam Giesinger (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1991): 348.
Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
Pallas, P.S. Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. Theil 3,2, Reise aus Sibirien zurueck an die Wolga im 1773sten Jahr (St. Petersburg: Kaiserl. Academie der Wissenschaften, 1776): 614.
Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
Reith, Andreas. Bettinger Lutheran Church, 2009 ( online - in Russian).
Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II by Count Orlov, 14 February 176
"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.
Stumpp, Karl. Die Auswanderung aus Deutschland nach Rußland in den Jahren 1763 bis 1862 (Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 2004): 68.
Glarus (Wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian