The Lutheran parish in Yagodnaya Polyana was founded in 1785 as an independent parish with a resident pastor of its own.
A new church was built in 1858 in the Kontor Style. It could seat 1,200 worshipers.
Yagodnaya Polyana was also served by the following vicar:
Yagodnaya Polyana was founded on 16 September 1767 by the Government as a Lutheran colony.
Year | Households | Population | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Total | Male | Female | ||
| 1767 | 80 | 269 | ||
| 1769 | 83 | 312 | 167 | 145 |
| 1773 | 85 | 402 | 206 | 196 |
| 1788 | 592 | |||
| 1798 | 822 | |||
| 1816 | 1,596 | |||
| 1834 | 286 | 2,922 | ||
| 1850 | 4,505 | |||
| 1857 | ||||
| 1859 | 5,520 | |||
| 1883 | 6,030 | |||
| 1891 | ||||
| 1894 | ||||
| 1897 | 6,459* | 3,213 | 3,246 | |
| 1905 | 9,351 | |||
| 1910 | ||||
| 1911 | 9,095 | |||
| 1912 | 8,845 | |||
| 1926 | 6,597 | |||
*Of whom 6,427 were German.
Lutheran
Censuses for Yagodnaya Polyana are available for the following years: 1767, 1798, & 1834.
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Beratz, Gottieb. The German colonies on the Lower Volga, their origin and early development: a memorial for the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first German settlers on the Volga, 29 June 1764 . Translated by Adam Giesinger (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1991): 350.
Orlov, Gregorii. Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II , 14 February 1769.
Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das Religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen - Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, 1972): 193.
"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 19.
Berry Meadow Archive (Richard Scheuerman)