The congregation in Dinkel was part of the Warenburg Lutheran Parish which had been established in 1770. A new church building was completed in 1894.
Dinkel was founded on 12 May 1767 by LeRoy & Pictet as a Lutheran colony.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
56
|
166
|
|
|
| 1769 |
52
|
173
|
91
|
82
|
| 1773 |
47
|
179
|
90
|
89
|
| 1788 |
|
|
|
|
| 1798 |
|
271
|
|
|
| 1816 |
|
|
|
|
| 1834 |
|
|
|
|
| 1850 |
|
|
|
|
| 1857 |
|
|
|
|
| 1859 |
|
|
|
|
| 1886 |
|
|
|
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,703*
|
862
|
841
|
| 1904 |
|
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
3,586
|
|
|
| 1920 |
356
|
2,564
|
|
|
| 1926** |
315
|
1,592
|
714
|
878
|
*Of whom 1,669 were German.
**Of whom 1,585 were German (311 households: 708 male & 877 female).
Lutheran
Beratz, Gottieb. The German colonies on the Lower Volga, their origin and early development: a memorial for the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first German settlers on the Volga, 29 June 1764 . Translated by Adam Giesinger (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1991): 349.
Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon . Moscow, 2006.
Orlov, Gregorii. Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II , 14 February 1769.
Pallas, P.S. Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. Theil 3,2, Reise aus Sibirien zurueck an die Wolga im 1773sten Jahr (St. Petersburg: Kaiserl. Academie der Wissenschaften, 1776): 609.
Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 297-311.
Pleve, Igor R. The German Colonies on the Volga: The Second Half of the Eighteenth Century , translated by Richard Rye (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2001): 319.
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): 17.