Susannental was founded on 3 August 1767 by Baron Caneau de Beauregard as a Lutheran colony. It was named after Baron Beauregard's wife.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
36
|
98
|
60
|
38
|
| 1769 |
10
|
134
|
70
|
64
|
| 1773 |
19
|
86
|
44
|
42
|
| 1788 |
18
|
86
|
50
|
36
|
| 1798 |
19
|
112
|
52
|
60
|
| 1816 |
28
|
188
|
93
|
95
|
| 1834 |
39
|
336
|
172
|
164
|
| 1850 |
52
|
495
|
256
|
239
|
| 1857 |
64
|
632
|
314
|
318
|
| 1859 |
|
642
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
1,004
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,032
|
533
|
499
|
| 1905 |
|
1,764
|
|
|
| 1910 |
172
|
1,883
|
992
|
891
|
| 1920 |
216*
|
1,476
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,151
|
|
|
| 1926 |
172
|
979
|
465
|
514
|
| 1931 |
|
1,194
|
|
|
*Of which 213 households were German.
Lutheran
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Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
Dietz, Jacob E. History of the Volga German Colonists . Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2005.
Klaus, A.A. Our Colonies (Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1869): 2:13; 4:52-53.
List of the Populated Places of the Samara Province (Samara, Russia, 1910): 292.
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): 613.
Preliminary Totals of the All-Union Population Census of 1926 for the Volga German ASSR (Pokrovsk, Russia, 1927): 28-83.
"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 17.
Susannental (David Schmidt)
Susannental (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian