Hoffental

Alternate Names

Hoffental,

Hoffenthal,

Zhdanovka

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Church

The congregation in Hoffental became an independent Lutheran parish in 1905 with a resident pastor.

Type of Settlement

Daughter

History

Hoffental was officially founded in 1859 as a Lutheran colony by colonists resettling from Beideck , Frank , Grimm , Hussenbach , Kolb , Norka , Schilling , and Walter. These colonists had been living there as early as 1857 and appear on an 1857 census there.

Population

Population Table
Year	Households	Population
Year	Households	Total	Male	Female
1850
1857
1859
1886
1891
1894
1897		574*	289	285
1904
1910
1912		1,511
1920	182	1,210
1926	161	848	404	444

*Of whom 561 were German.

Priests or pastors

Stenzel, Johannes

1903-1905

Büttner, Johann Reinhard

1913-1918

Schwartz, Johann Georg

1929-1932

Sources

Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.

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): 351.

"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)