The congregation in Frankreich belonged to the parish headquartered in nearby Alt-Weimar .
Frankreich was founded in 1861 by Lutheran colonists resettling from Galka , Shcherbakovka , and Schwab . It is 6 miles northwest of the Russian town of Pallasovka.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1859 |
|
|
|
|
| 1888 |
76
|
544
|
272
|
272
|
| 1897 |
|
749*
|
369
|
380
|
| 1908 |
178
|
806
|
413
|
393
|
| 1910 |
117
|
1,032
|
534
|
498
|
| 1912 |
|
1,000
|
|
|
| 1920 |
188**
|
1,294
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,367
|
|
|
| 1926 |
184
|
1,081
|
508
|
573
|
| 1931 |
|
1,951***
|
|
|
*Of whom 740 were German.
**Of which 886 were German households.
***Of whom 1,670 were German.
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Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 312.
Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 198.
"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 17.
Frankreich (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russia