Eckheim was established as an independent parish in 1865.
Eckheim was founded in 1855 by Lutheran colonists resettling from Holstein , Müller , Galka , Kraft , Schwab , Dobrinka , Grimm , and Shcherbakovka . It is located 560 versts from Samara and 112 versts from Saratov. It is 13 miles to Friedenfeld , the nearest railroad station. Its name was changed to Skatovka in 1915.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1857 |
|
|
406
|
|
| 1859 |
|
|
|
|
| 1886 |
|
|
|
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,339*
|
681
|
658
|
| 1904 |
|
|
|
|
| 1910 |
238
|
2,321
|
1,195
|
1,126
|
| 1912 |
|
2,200
|
|
|
| 1920 |
286**
|
1,831
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
292
|
1,565
|
751
|
814
|
*Of whom 1,328 were German.
**Of which 283 households were German.
***Of those, 288 households (1,555 individuals: 746 male & 809 female) were German.
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Eckheim (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian