Bangert was founded on 1 July 1767 by colonists who had been recruited by LeRoi & Pictet.
The colony was named after Johann Heinrich Bangert, its first mayor (Vorsteher), who had come from the German village of Niederlauken in Nassau-Usingen.
Today, what remains of the former colony of Bangert is known as Zaumorye.
The first settlers of Bangert were Lutheran.
The congregation in Bangert was originally part of the Warenburg Lutheran Parish which had been established in 1770. In 1821, Bangert became part of the parish headquarted in Kukkus where the resident pastor was.
During the early years, worship services were held in the Bethaus (combination of school and church). A new Bethaus was constructed in 1815. A new church building was constructed in 1859. It was enlarged in 1890. Nothing remains of this structure.
By decree on 19 May 1934 of the Commission on Cults of the Central Executive Committee of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Volga Germans, the church in Bangert was closed. At that time, there were still 723 villagers registered in the church community.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
32
|
83
|
|
|
| 1769 |
28
|
88
|
47
|
41
|
| 1773 |
28
|
102
|
51
|
51
|
| 1788 |
28
|
149
|
83
|
66
|
| 1798 |
31
|
206
|
111
|
95
|
| 1816 |
38
|
239
|
128
|
111
|
| 1834 |
59
|
444
|
231
|
213
|
| 1850 |
81
|
706
|
358
|
348
|
| 1857 |
91
|
883
|
461
|
422
|
| 1859 |
91
|
899
|
472
|
427
|
| 1883 |
|
1,222
|
|
|
| 1888 |
133
|
1,233
|
629
|
604
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,281*
|
631
|
650
|
| 1904 |
|
1,985
|
|
|
| 1910 |
150
|
1,844
|
908
|
936
|
| 1912 |
|
2,246
|
|
|
| 1920 |
219
|
1,623
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,336
|
|
|
| 1926 |
237
|
1,430
|
675
|
755
|
| 1931 |
|
1,632**
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,257 were German.
**Of whom 1,627 were German.
- Bangert (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian
- 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: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 105-113.
- 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): 16.
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Bangert Lutheran Church (1911).
School revealed to the right.
Source: Volksfreund Kalender, 1911.
Church in Bangert (about 1920). Source: wolgadeutsche.net