The colony had both a Catholic church and a school as of 1910. The congregation was named in honor of St. Anthony. The congregation in Neu-Ober-Monjou belonged to the headquarters parish of Liebental where the priest was resident.
Neu-Ober-Monjou was a Catholic daughter colony founded in 1859 in Samara Province, Kanton Mariental. Neu-Ober-Munjou was established to provide additional farmland for families from the colonies of Ober- Monjou, Katharinenstadt and Beauregard. The colony's name was taken from Ober-Monjou, the original colony from which came the largest number of resettlers.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1859 |
|
1,053
|
|
|
| 1886 |
|
|
|
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
571
|
273
|
298
|
| 1904 |
|
|
|
|
| 1910 |
116
|
1,042
|
517
|
525
|
| 1912 |
|
1,000
|
|
|
| 1920 |
161
|
903
|
|
|
| 1926* |
134
|
682
|
355
|
327
|
*Of whom 677 (351 male & 326 female) were German living in 133 households.
Catholic
1862 Census of Neu-Ober-Monjou
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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.
Neu-Obermonjou (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian