![Map showing Streckerau on the bottom (1935). [Strassenfeld is above, across the river.]](/sites/default/files/colony_images/map_streckerau.jpg "Map showing Streckerau on the bottom (1935). [Strassenfeld is above, across the river.]")
A Catholic church was built in Streckerau in 1875 with materials from the church that was dismantled in Neu-Kolonie in 1870. It was a large building measuring 40 meters long by 15 meters wide.
Streckerau was originally part of the Catholic parish headquartered in Marienberg, but became an independent parish with a resident pastor of its own in 1903.
Streckerau was a Roman Catholic daughter colony founded in 1863 by colonists from Kamenka, Pfeifer, Sewald, Rohleder, Schuck, Leichtling, Husaren, Volmer, Marienfeld, Josefstal, Hildman, Göbel, Rothammel, Semenovka, Dehler and Neu-Kolonie.
Streckerau was located on the left bank of the Bizyuk River 75 kilometers southeast of Engels. Immigration to American began in 1876 with the departure of 56 colonists.
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Year
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Households
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Population
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Total
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Male
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Female
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| 1883 |
|
991
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
1,291
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,447*
|
732
|
715
|
| 1904 |
|
|
|
|
| 1910 |
265
|
2,494
|
1,338
|
1,156
|
| 1912 |
|
2,392
|
|
|
| 1920 |
258
|
1,525
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
915
|
|
|
| 1926** |
235
|
1,248
|
612
|
636
|
| 1931 |
|
2,062***
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,437 were German.
**Of whom 1,245 (611 male & 634 female) were German living in 234 households.
***Of whom 2,059 were German.
Catholic
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Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 313.
Rohrbach, Paul, Deutschtum in Not! Die Schicksale der Deutschen in Europa außerhalb des Reiches (Karlsruhe: Dortmund o.J., 1927.
Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
Schnurr, Joseph, "Die deutsche Kolonie Streckerau (Kreis Nowousensk) Zum 50jähringen Jubiläum ihres Bestehens" in Die Kirchen, die Geistlichen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen Katholiken auf dem Boden der Tiraspoler Diözese , (Stuttgart: Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, 1972): 131.
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"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 18.
Predestination (Galina Mironenko)
Streckerau (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian