The Catholic church in Neu-Kolonie was dismantled in 1870 and sold to the colonists resettling to the daughter colony of Streckerau .
Neu-Kolonie was founded in 1776 by colonists from Keller and Leitsinger, colonies that were abandoned following their destruction by the Kirghiz in October of 1774. Most of the colonists were Roman Catholic.
Neu-Kolonie was completely inundated by the creation of the Volgograd Reservoir in 1961.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1788 |
|
133
|
|
|
| 1798 |
|
250
|
|
|
| 1816 |
|
368
|
|
|
| 1834 |
|
598
|
|
|
| 1850 |
125
|
1,010
|
522
|
488
|
| 1857 |
141
|
1,166
|
607
|
559
|
| 1859 |
|
1,190
|
|
|
| 1886 |
|
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
1,992
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
2,207
|
1,115
|
1,092
|
| 1905 |
|
3,134
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
3,307
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
3,463
|
|
|
| 1920 |
490*
|
2,816
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,503
|
|
|
| 1926** |
398
|
1,904
|
903
|
1,001
|
| 1931 |
|
2,252
|
|
|
*Of which 487 households were German.
**Of whom 1,901 were German (396 households: 901 male & 1,000 female).
Catholic
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Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon . Moscow, 2006.
Mai, Brent Alan, 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999), v.1: 166.
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): 16.