A new Catholic church was built in Schönchen in the Kontor Style in 1903.
Schönchen was founded as a Roman Catholic colony on 3 August 1767 by Baron Caneau de Beauregard on the Little Karaman River. The land there was not suitable for farming and in 1770 the colony was relocated to better land northeast of Katharinental, between the colonies of Zug and Wittmann .
Schönchen received its Russian name after Count N. I. Panin (1718- 1783).
The colony of Schönchen no longer exists.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
|
63
|
|
|
| 1769 |
42
|
127
|
64
|
63
|
| 1773 |
54
|
198
|
98
|
100
|
| 1788 |
49
|
150
|
128
|
122
|
| 1798 |
46
|
256
|
137
|
119
|
| 1816 |
76
|
418
|
222
|
196
|
| 1834 |
110
|
786
|
378
|
408
|
| 1850 |
135
|
1,074
|
556
|
518
|
| 1857 |
146
|
1,218
|
627
|
591
|
| 1859 |
|
|
|
|
| 1883 |
|
1,815
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
1,951
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
2,419*
|
1,196
|
1,223
|
| 1904 |
|
|
|
|
| 1910 |
490
|
3,000
|
1,502
|
1,498
|
| 1912 |
|
3,132
|
|
|
| 1920 |
470
|
3,016
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,155
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
1,515
|
|
|
| 1926** |
385
|
1,904
|
905
|
999
|
| 1931 |
|
2,523***
|
|
|
*Of whom 2,399 were German.
**Of whom 1,903 (905 male & 998 female) were German living in 384 households.
***Of whom 2,517 were German.
Catholic
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Schönchen (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian
Schönchen, Russia