The Lutheran congregation in Lilienfeld belonged to the parish headquartered in Fresental where the pastor lived.
Lilienfeld was founded in 1848 by colonists from Katharinenstadt, Orlovskaya, Boisroux, Ernestinendorf, Philippsfeld, Kaneau and Paulskaya. Emigration to America began in 1878 when 11 people left.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1850 |
33
|
239
|
125
|
114
|
| 1857 |
46
|
317
|
170
|
147
|
| 1859 |
81
|
1,223
|
639
|
584
|
| 1889 |
|
896
|
|
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
913
|
440
|
473
|
| 1905 |
|
1,438
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
1,584
|
777
|
807
|
| 1912 |
|
1,500
|
|
|
| 1920 |
221
|
1,423
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,162
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
1,075
|
|
|
| 1926* |
207
|
1,185
|
556
|
629
|
| 1931 |
|
1,404
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,178 were German (205 households: 552 male and 626 female).
List of First Settlers, 1850 (Altenhoff.org)
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.
"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.
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