Alexandertal was founded in 1855 (1853 per Dietz & Koch) by colonists from Schilling.
Alexandertal's first settlers from Schilling were Lutheran.
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
---|---|---|---|---|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
1857 |
30
|
195
|
126
|
69
|
1859 |
19
|
213
|
123
|
90
|
1886 |
60
|
445
|
227
|
218
|
1891 |
|
|
|
|
1894 |
|
781
|
405
|
376
|
1897 |
|
|
|
|
1904 |
|
|
|
|
1911 |
|
536
|
|
|
1920 |
111
|
758
|
|
|
1922 |
|
703
|
|
|
1926* |
118
|
723
|
324
|
399
|
1931 |
|
855
|
|
|
*Of whom 721 were German (322 male & 399 female).
Alexandertal (Dick Kraus)
Alexandertal (Gary Martens)
Alexandertal (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
- 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): 215.
- Klaus, A.A. Our Colonies. Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1869 (Appendix II, p.10; Appendix IV, pp.52-53).
- Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 311.
- List of Settlements in the Russian Empire in 1859, vol. 38: Saratov Province (St. Petersburg, 1862): p.62.Mink, A.N. Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Saratov Province [in Russian] (Saratov, Russia, 1898): 9-12. (Online)
- Preliminary Totals of the All-Union Population Census of 1926 for the Volga German ASSR (Pokrovsk, Russia, 1927): pp.28-83.
- "The Settlement Alexandertal." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia - VI:2 (Summer 1983): 12-13.
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Migrated From
Immigration Locations
Map showing Alexandertal (1935).
Panorama of the former colony of Alexandertal.
Source: Wladimir Kakorin.
Former German house in Alexandertal.
Source: Wladimir Kakorin.