The congregation in Neu-Dönhof was part of the Dietel parish and served by the pastors who lived there.
Neu-Dönhof was founded as a Lutheran colony in 1863 by colonists from Dönhof .
Following the 1941 deportation, Neu-Dönhof was officially renamed Novinka on 31 March 1944 and that is the name by which it is known today.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1857 |
|
712
|
374
|
338
|
| 1859 |
|
|
|
|
| 1886* |
158
|
1,599
|
816
|
763
|
| 1891 |
150
|
1,894
|
982
|
912
|
| 1894 |
180
|
1,811
|
937
|
874
|
| 1897 |
|
1,804**
|
914
|
890
|
| 1904 |
|
|
|
|
| 1911 |
|
2,090
|
|
|
| 1920 |
254
|
2,382
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
2,104
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
357
|
2,368
|
1,161
|
1,207
|
| 1931 |
|
2,535
|
|
|
*Of whom 39 (7 households) were not German.
**Of whom 1,799 were German.
***Of whom 2,360 were German (349 households: 1,153 male & 1,207 female).
Lutheran
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Fendel, Heinrich. History of the German Colony of Neu-Dönhof [in Russian] ( online ).
Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 311.
Mink, A.N. Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Saratov Province [in Russian] (Saratov, Russia, 1898): 162-164. ( Online
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): 18.
Neu-Dönhof (Wolgadeutsche.net)