Basel
Basel was founded along the bank of the Malenkiy Karaman (Little Karaman) River on 20 August 1767 by colonists who had been recruited by Baron Caneau de Beauregard.
The 1767 census does not include a list of the original colonists in Basel as they were residing in other colonies at that time.
Due to poor soil conditions, the colony of Basel was moved to a new location in 1770 on the banks of the Volga River.
A mill was built in Basel in 1908.
Today, what remains of the former colony of Basel is known as Vasilevka.
The Lutheran congregation in Basel was part of the parish headquartered in Bettinger. The Lutheran Church of the Ascension in Basel was built of wood in 1839 [1841 per Mittheilungen und Nachrichten].
Today nothing remains of this church, but its foundations are visible from satellite images.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
|
83
|
|
|
| 1769 |
26
|
83
|
43
|
40
|
| 1773 |
45
|
166
|
80
|
86
|
| 1788 |
46
|
251
|
133
|
118
|
| 1798 |
47
|
295
|
150
|
145
|
| 1816 |
67
|
512
|
253
|
259
|
| 1834 |
109
|
905
|
464
|
441
|
| 1850 |
131
|
1,306
|
659
|
647
|
| 1857 |
156
|
1,476
|
760
|
716
|
| 1859 |
164
|
1,479
|
770
|
709
|
| 1883 |
|
2,295
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
2,357
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
2,627
|
1,321
|
1,306
|
| 1905 |
|
4,310
|
|
|
| 1910 |
442
|
4,864
|
2,486
|
2,378
|
| 1912 |
|
4,795
|
|
|
| 1920 |
440
|
3,410
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
2,998
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
2,807
|
|
|
| 1926* |
370
|
2,550
|
1,243
|
1,307
|
| 1931 |
|
3,380**
|
|
|
*Of whom 2,513 (1,213 male & 1,300 female) were German living in 367 households.
**Of whom 3,361 were German.
Basel (Wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
- Beratz, Gottieb. The German colonies on the Lower Volga, their origin and early development: a memorial for the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first German settlers on the Volga, 29 June 1764. Translated by Adam Giesinger (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1991): 351.
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Mittheilungen und Nachrichten für die evangelische Geistlichkeit Russlands: 1841, p. 295.
- 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): 614.
- Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
- Reith, Andreas. Bettinger Lutheran Church, 2009 (online - in Russian).
- Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II by Count Orlov, 14 February 1769."Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.
- Stumpp, Karl. Die Auswanderung aus Deutschland nach Rußland in den Jahren 1763 bis 1862 (Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 2004): 68.
Map redrawn from one that was created in 1764. It shows the original location planned for the colony of Basel (No. 66) on the banks of the Malenkiy Karaman (Little Karaman) River.
Source: Andreas Reith.
Map showing Basel on the right (1935).
Lutheran Church of the Ascension in Basel built in 1839.
Ruins of the mill constructed in Basel in 1908.
Source: Vladimir Kakorin (2009) - originally posted to wolgadeutsche.net.
Ruins of the mill constructed in Basel in 1908.
Source: Vladimir Kakorin (2009) - originally posted to wolgadeutsche.net.
Former school and Bethaus (Prayer House) in Basel. During the Soviet era, it was used as the village library.
Source: Vladimir Kakorin (2009) - originally posted to wolgadeutsche.net.
Basel from the air.
Source: wolgadeutsche.net.
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