Brabander
Brabander was founded on 26 June 1767 by colonists recruited by Le Roi & Pictet. There were originally 135 families from France, Württemberg, and Luxembourg.
The colony was named after Franz Joseph Brabander, its first mayor. It was also known for a time as Audincourt, the French town from which several of the families came. By official decree on 26 February 1768, the colony received its official Russian name of Kazitskaya, after Mr. Kazitzky, one of the officials in the Office of Foreign Gardianship (Kontora) in Saratov.
Brabander was one of the colonies that was plundered in 1774 by the Pugachev rebels.
Today, what remains of the colony of Brabander is known as Krasnoarmeiskoye.
The original colonists who settled in Brabander were of the Roman Catholic faith practice. The congregation in Brabander was an independent parish from its founding in 1767 with a resident priest of its own.
The first church building in Brabander was constructed of wood in 1768-1770. In 1806, under the leadership of Father Thaddäus Hattowski, a new building was constructed. It was consecrated in 1807.
A parsonage was built in 1826. At the same time, a chapel was constructed in the cemetery.
In March 1835, the community petitioned the Office of Immigrant Oversight (the Kontora) for permission to build a new church with a stone foundation. Construction began in 1839 and the new facilty was consecrated on 21 February 1840 and dedicated to the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
A resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the ASSR of the Volga Germans dated 14 January 1939 closed the church and abolished the parish.
During the Soviet era the building was converted into a community center and was eventually dismantled.
From 1803 to 1820, Brabander was one of the 10 parishes served by missionary priests from the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits).
The Catholic parish in Brabander was served by the following priests:
Thaddäus Hattowsky (1803-1807)
Heinrich Guillemaint (1807-1820)
Peter Jacob Rollewitsch (1836-1847)
Joseph Wanner (1867-1871)
Johannes Ungemach (1884)
Adolf Ulrich (1884-1890)
Michael Still
Peter Bach (1901)
Johannes Zimmermann (1913-1918, 1923-1925, 1929)
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
123
|
366
|
190
|
176
|
| 1769 |
102
|
350
|
183
|
167
|
| 1773 |
99
|
351
|
177
|
174
|
| 1788 |
68
|
398
|
149
|
148
|
| 1798 |
78
|
394
|
198
|
196
|
| 1816 |
95
|
530
|
269
|
261
|
| 1834 |
147
|
889
|
477
|
412
|
| 1850 |
162
|
1,200
|
616
|
584
|
| 1857 |
156
|
1,448
|
740
|
708
|
| 1859 |
178
|
1,496
|
777
|
719
|
| 1883 |
|
2,171
|
|
|
| 1888 |
323
|
2,301
|
1,149
|
1,152
|
| 1897 |
|
2,369*
|
1,148
|
1,221
|
| 1908 |
356
|
3,764
|
1,914
|
1,850
|
| 1910 |
425
|
3,051
|
1,484
|
1,567
|
| 1912 |
|
3,885
|
|
|
| 1920 |
528
|
3,305
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
2,640
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
2,483
|
|
|
| 1926 |
543
|
2,580**
|
1,247
|
1,326
|
| 1931 |
|
3,153***
|
|
|
*Of whom 2,355 were German.
**Of whom 2,573 (1,247 male & 1,326 female) were German living in 539 households.
***Of whom 3,128 were German.
Brabander (wolgadeutschen.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): 348.
- 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.
- Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 215-242.
- Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das Religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen, Katholischer Teil (Stuttgart, 1980), p. 246.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.
Church in Brabander.
Source: "Немцы Поволжья" website.
Herrmann Kaufmann mill southwest of Brabander.
Source: Jorgelina Fischer
Herrmann Kaufmann mill located southwest of Brabander.
Source: Jorgelina Fischer.
Brabander mill equipment continues in use after 100 years.
Source: David Karber.
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