Blumenheim
Names:
Blumenheim
Krasnaya Zvezda
Блюменгейм
Красная Звезда
History:
Blumenheim was founded as a kuhtor (farmstead) on the left bank of the Malyi Kushum River.
Today, what remains of the former Volga German settlement of Blumenheim is called Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star).
Church:
The Gnadenflur parish served the needs of the Lutheran congregation in Blumenheim.
Population:
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1920 |
27*
|
175
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
174
|
|
|
| 1926 |
20
|
133**
|
62
|
71
|
| 1931 |
|
511***
|
|
|
*Of whom 25 were German.
**Of whom 109 were German.
***Of whom 478 were German.
External Links:
- Blumenheim (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian.
Sources:
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
Map showing Blumenheim (1935).
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