The original settlers in Langenfeld were Lutheran.
Langenfeld was founded in 1859 across the river to the east from Krasny-Kut by Lutheran colonists resettling from Walter, Frank, Shcherbakovka, Dietel, Hussenbach, Huck, Kolb and Norka . After 1915, Langenfeld was known by the Russian name Krestnyi which means godfather.
Today Langenfeld is known as Verkhnaya Yeruslan.
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Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1850 |
|
|
|
|
| 1857 |
|
|
|
|
| 1859 |
|
|
|
|
| 1886 |
|
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
730
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
812*
|
396
|
416
|
| 1905 |
|
1,270
|
|
|
| 1910 |
164
|
1,360
|
708
|
652
|
| 1912 |
|
1,300
|
|
|
| 1920 |
156**
|
894
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
666
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
176
|
842
|
400
|
442
|
| 1931 |
|
874
|
|
|
*Of whom 805 were German.
**Of which 155 households were German.
***Of whom 831 (395 male & 436 female) were German living in 173 households.
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Klaus, A. Our colony [in Russian] (St. Petersburg, 1869): II:16.
Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 312.
List of populated areas of the Samara Province [in Russian] (Samara, 1910): 350.
Preliminary Results of the All-Union Census of 1926 and ASSR Volga Germans (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.
Langenfeld (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian