Alternate Names
Avilova,
Awilowa,
Rastringen Khutor,
Landheim Khutor,
Wiesenfeld
Gallery
Type of Settlement
History
Wiesenfeld was founded in 1846 as a Lutheran colony by colonists from Shcherbakovka and Oberdorf .
Population
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1850 |
|
|
|
|
| 1857 |
|
|
|
|
| 1859 |
|
|
|
|
| 1886 |
|
|
|
|
| 1891 |
22
|
318
|
150
|
168
|
| 1894 |
29
|
335
|
173
|
162
|
| 1897 |
|
|
|
|
| 1904 |
|
202
|
|
|
| 1911 |
|
220
|
|
|
| 1920 |
|
350
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
310
|
|
|
| 1926 |
60
|
364
|
173
|
191
|
| 1931 |
|
412**
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,178 were German (552 male and 626 female).
**Of whom 395 were German.
Religion
Lutheran
Sources
Herman, A. A. German Autonomy on the Volga, 1918-1941 (Saratov: Saratov University, 1994): 385.
Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 32 & 311.
Mink, A.N. Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Saratov Province [in Russian] (Saratov, Russia, 1898): 5-6.
Preliminary Totals of the All-Union Population Census of 1926 for the Volga German ASSR (Pokrovsk, Russia, 1927): 28-83.
External Links
Avilova (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian