Marienberg was a Roman Catholic daughter colony. It belonged to the parish headquartered in Streckerau until 1903 when it became an independent parish with a resident priest. The church was built in Marienberg in 1877.
In addition to the list below, it is known that Jakob Kayser also served as a priest in this colony.
Marienberg was a Roman Catholic daughter colony founded in 1855 by colonists from Rothammel, Sewald, Husaren, Semenovka, Schuck, Kamenka, and Degott . It was located 505 versts from Samara and 3 versts from Streckerau . It was 42 versts to the nearest railway stop in Krasnyi Kut.
Immigration began in 1876 and from 1876-1878, 79 colonists left for America.
A list of 19 families that departed from Marienberg on 2 August 1921 was provided by Bernard J. Siegel.
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Year
|
Households
|
Population
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Total
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Male
|
Female
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| 1857 |
|
|
|
|
| 1859 |
52
|
403
|
198
|
205
|
| 1883 |
|
1,623
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
1,908
|
|
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
2,385*
|
1,157
|
1,228
|
| 1905 |
|
3,187
|
|
|
| 1910 |
469
|
3,229
|
1,636
|
1,593
|
| 1912 |
|
3,310
|
|
|
| 1920 |
487
|
2,659
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,340
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
1,500
|
|
|
| 1926** |
392
|
1,891
|
914
|
977
|
| 1931 |
|
2,084***
|
|
|
*Of whom 2,332 were German.
**Of whom 1,882 (906 male & 976 female) were German living in 387 households.
***Of whom 2,059 were German.
Catholic
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Dietz, Jacob E. History of the Volga German Colonists (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2005): 241.
Klaus, A. Our Colony [in Russian] (St. Petersburg, 1869).
Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 17.
Marienberg (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian