Blumenfeld (am Belaya Kuba)
The daughter colony of Blumenfeld was founded along the banks of the Belaya Kuba River in 1860 [Klaus cites the founding year as 1861] by Lutheran colonists resettling from Galka, Shcherbakovka, Kraft, Dreispitz, and Holstein.
After the 1941 deportation of the Volga Germans, the settlement was renamed Tsvetochnoye and that is the name by which it is known today.
The Lutheran congregation located in Blumenfeld was part of the parishes headquartered in Morgentau and Gnadentau. Over the years, there were also Seventh Day Adventists living in the colony.
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Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Total
|
Male
|
Female
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||
| 1888 |
206
|
1,215
|
632
|
583
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,589*
|
842
|
747
|
| 1908 |
327
|
2,797
|
1,455
|
1,342
|
| 1910 |
350
|
2,999
|
1,507
|
1,492
|
| 1912 |
|
3,000
|
|
|
| 1920 |
381**
|
2,687
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,979
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
378
|
2,184
|
1,035
|
1,149
|
| 1931 |
|
2,646****
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,571 were German.
**Of which 375 were German households.
***Of whom 2,146 (1,020 male & 1,126 female) were German living in 369 households.
****Of whom 2,552 were German.
Blumenfeld (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
Blumenfeldt (Jeruslan Nachrichten)
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 311.
- 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.
Map showing Blumenfeld (1935).
Panorama of Blumenfeld.
Source: wolgadeutsche.net.
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