Alternate Names
Gnadenfeld,
Kirovskaya,
Kirovskoye,
Kirowskaya,
Moor,
Neu-Moor
Gallery
Map showing Gnadenfeld (1935).
Members of the Michael and Katherine Elisabeth Johann family from Gnadenfeld - circa 1912. Back row from left to right: Katherine Elisabeth Johann (née ? - wife of Heinrich Johann, Sr), Elisabeth Grün (née Johann) standing behind her parents, Margaret Johann (née ? - wife of Solomon Johann). Front row from left to right: Alexander Johann (son of Heinrich Sr.), Heinrich Johann, Sr., Heinrich Johann, Jr. (son of Heinrich Sr.), Michael Johann, Maria Grün (born 5 Aug 1908), Katherine Elisabeth Johann (née ?), Anna Grün (born 25 Jul 1910 - sitting on her grandmother’s lap), Maria Johann (daughter of Heinrich Johann, Sr.), Solomon Johann. Elisabeth Johann was born on 7 Sep 1888. She married Heinrich (Henry) Grün on 5 Sep 1907 in Hussenbach. Heinrich was born in Norka on 25 Nov 1887. This photo was taken in Gnadenfeld about 1912. Used with permission of Lucille Green Lavato and Mike Green.
Type of Settlement
History
Population
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Year
|
Households
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Population
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1857 |
|
|
|
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| 1859 |
|
|
|
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| 1886 |
|
|
|
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
119
|
1,077*
|
523
|
554
|
| 1904 |
|
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
1,968
|
|
|
| 1920 |
240
|
1,968
|
|
|
| 1926 |
290
|
1,668
|
801
|
867
|
*Of whom 1,071 were German.
Sources
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.
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.
"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.
External Links
- How Many Schillings Are There? (Gary Martens)