The Lutheran congregation in Neu-Schilling was served by the parish in Eckheim where there was a resident pastor.
Neu-Schilling was founded as a Lutheran colony in 1855 by colonists resettling from Schilling. It was located 153 kilometers southeast of Saratov and was part of the Friedenfeld parish.
Neu-Schilling no longer exists. The documents accompanying the 1934 Map of the Volga Germans (reprinted in 1997) incorrectly identifies it as the current village of Kostyantinivka.
Neu-Schilling is the birthplace of the poet Robert Frank (1918-2001).
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Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1857 |
|
|
|
|
| 1859 |
|
|
|
|
| 1886 |
|
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
491
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
665*
|
331
|
334
|
| 1904 |
|
916
|
|
|
| 1905 |
|
864
|
|
|
| 1910 |
113
|
1,020
|
526
|
494
|
| 1912 |
|
1,084
|
|
|
| 1920 |
206**
|
1,484
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,124
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
166
|
984
|
504
|
480
|
| 1931 |
|
1,287****
|
|
|
*Of whom 649 were German.
**Of which 196 households were German.
***Of whom 974 (496 male & 478 female) were German in 162 households.
****Of whom 1,275 were German.
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): 218.
Karte der ASSR der Wolgadeutschen (Nachdruck der Ausgabe: Saratov, 1934; Göttingen, 1997): accompanying document, p. 42.
Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 313.
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.
History of the Village of Schilling and the Daughter Colonies (Gary Martens)
Neu-Schilling (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian