Sheboygan

HISTORY

Richard Sallet reports that the first Volga German immigrants arrived in Sheboygan in 1892 from the colony of Reinwald. By 1930, there were 550 families living there, among them 230 from Reinwald and 170 from Schäfer. In total, Volga German families from the following colonies settled in and around Sheboygan:

Basel
Biberstein
Dinkel
Dobrinka
Dreispitz
Enders
Fischer
Frank
Fresental
Gnadendorf
Grimm
Huck
Hussenbach
Katharinenstadt
Kolb
Kraft
Krasnoyar
Laub
Lilienfeld
Merkel
Moor
Morgentau
Näb
Neu-Weimar
Nieder-Monjou
Norka
Oberdorf
Paulskaya
Philippsfeld
Reinhard
Reinwald
Rosenfeld
Rosenheim
Schäfer
Schaffhausen
Schilling
Schulz
Schwed
Stahl am Karaman
Straub
Urbach
Weizenfeld
Wiesenfeld
Yagodnaya-Polyana
Zurich

VOLGA GERMAN FAMILIES

The following Volga German families are known to have settled in and around Sheboygan:

Befus from Yagodnaya Polyana
Bolgert from Reinhard
Dietz from Reinhard
Ehler
Ehlert
Ertel
Hermann from Schäfer
Horst from Rosenheim
Jurk from Reinwald
Kunstman from Reinhard
Markgraf
Neuwirth from Reinwald
Reimer from Reinwald
Richter
Schardt from Krasnoyar
Welsch from Schäfer

VOLGA GERMAN CONGREGATIONS

Ebenezer Congregational/Lutheran Church
St. Andrew Lutheran Church
St. Paul Lutheran Church
St. Stephan Lutheran Church
Trinity Lutheran Church