The Lutheran parish in Gnadenflur was established on 5 October 1861. It was the headquarters parish, and thus the pastor's residence, for neighboring parishes.
Gnadenflur was founded in 1850 as a Lutheran colony on the left bank of the Bolshoye Karaman River 150 kilometers east of Engels and 15 kilometers north of Fedorovka.
During the 1921 Famine, 15-20% of the population of Gnadenflur perished.
Following the 28 August 1941 Decree, the inhabitants of Gnadenflur were deported on 8 September 1941 to the village of Shmakov, Zalesovsky District, in the Altai Region.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1857 |
68
|
|
228
|
|
| 1859 |
|
478
|
|
|
| 1883 |
|
552
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
609
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
647*
|
339
|
308
|
| 1904 |
|
929
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
1,046
|
|
|
| 1920 |
175
|
1,199
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
981
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
927
|
|
|
| 1926** |
216
|
1,001
|
487
|
514
|
| 1931 |
|
1,807***
|
|
|
| 1939 |
|
2,479
|
|
|
*Of whom 642 were German.
**Of whom 986 were German living in 207 households (475 male & 511 female).
***Of whom 1,770 were German.
Amburger, Erik. Die Pastoren der evangelischen Kirchen Rußlands (Lüneburg, Germany: Institut Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk, 1998): 143.
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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.
Russian Settlements in the Years 1917-1941 [in Russian] (wolgadeutsche.net)
Schnurr, Joseph, Die Kirchen und das Religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen - Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, 1972): 197.
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