Rosenfeld (am Jeruslan)

Alternate Names

Norka,

Norki,

Rosenfeld,

Rosenfeld am Jeruslan,

Rosenfeldt

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Church

The original settlers of Rosenfeld were Reformed.

Type of Settlement

Daughter

History

Rosenfeld was founded in 1859 along the Jeruslan River by colonists from Huck, Norka and Moor. It is located across the Jeruslan River from Krasny-Kut to the south and today is part of the Krasny-Kut metropolitan area.

Population

Population Table
Year	Households	Population
Year	Households	Total	Male	Female
1859
1886
1891
1894
1897		773	390	383
1904
1910	173	1,234	648	586
1912		1,100
1920	212*	1,248
1922		667
1926**	205	911	432	479
1931		1,057***

*Of which 211 households were German.
**Of whom 203 households were German - total: 899 (427 male, 472 female).
***Of whom 1,032 were German.

Religion

Reformed Lutheran

Sources

Herman, A. A. German Autonomy on the Volga, 1918-1941 (Saratov: Saratov University, 1994): 385.

Klaus, A. Our Colony [in Russian] (St. Petersburg, 1869): 2:16.

Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 313.

List of Populated Areas of the Samara Province [in Russian] (Samara, 1910): 350.

Preliminary Totals of the All-Union Population Census of 1926 for the Volga German ASSR (Pokrovsk, Russia, 1927): 28-83.

"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 17.

External Links

Rosenfeld (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian