The congregation in Rosenfeld am Nachoi was part of the Lutheran parish headquartered in Weizenfeld.
Rosenfeld was founded in 1859 along the Nachoi River as a Lutheran colony. As of 1910, there were a Lutheran church, a school, and three windmills in the colony.
Because of their proximity, Rosenfeld and Gnadendorf were merged into one settlement during the Soviet era.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1859 |
|
|
|
|
| 1886 |
|
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
1,028
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,121*
|
|
|
| 1905 |
|
1,729
|
|
|
| 1910 |
206
|
1,891
|
923
|
968
|
| 1912 |
|
6,200
|
|
|
| 1920 |
224**
|
1,381
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,191
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
1,299
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
265
|
1,393
|
716
|
677
|
| 1931 |
|
1,793****
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,114 were German.
**Of which 222 households were German.
***Of whom 1,387 (714 male & 673 female) were German living in 263 households.
****Of whom 1,771 were German.
Lutheran
Herdt, Karl. Die Namengebung zweier Woldadeutscher Dörfer, Alexanderdorf und Höh (Alexander-Höh): am Nachoistrom gelegen sowie Episoden aus dem damaligen Bauernleben und Skizzen aus der Steppentierwelt (Espelkamp: K. Herdt, 1983): 14.
Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 313.
Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
Rosenfeld (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian