Alexandertal was founded in 1855 (1853 per Dietz & Koch) by Lutheran colonists from Schilling.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1857 |
30
|
195
|
126
|
69
|
| 1859 |
19
|
213
|
123
|
90
|
| 1886 |
60
|
445
|
227
|
218
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
781
|
405
|
376
|
| 1897 |
|
|
|
|
| 1904 |
|
|
|
|
| 1911 |
|
536
|
|
|
| 1920 |
111
|
758
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
703
|
|
|
| 1926* |
118
|
723
|
324
|
399
|
| 1931 |
|
855
|
|
|
*Of whom 721 were German (322 male & 399 female).
Lutheran
Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
Dietz, Jacob E. History of the Volga German Colonists (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2005): 215.
Klaus, A.A. Our Colonies . Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1869 (Appendix II, p.10; Appendix IV, pp.52-53).
Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 311.
List of Settlements in the Russian Empire in 1859, vol. 38: Saratov Province (St. Petersburg, 1862): p.62.
Mink, A.N. Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Saratov Province [in Russian] (Saratov, Russia, 1898): 9-12. ( Online )
Preliminary Totals of the All-Union Population Census of 1926 for the Volga German ASSR (Pokrovsk, Russia, 1927): pp.28-83.
"The Settlement Alexandertal." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia - VI:2 (Summer 1983): 12-13.
Alexandertal (Dick Kraus)
Alexandertal (Gary Martens)
Alexandertal (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian