Brunnental was founded in 1855 by colonists resettling from Frank, Kolb, Walter, Schilling, Pobochnaya, and Norka. It is located 505 versts from Samara and 7 versts from Streckerau.
Brunnental was named after the then president of the Moscow Evangelical Lutheran Consistory.
In 1921, colonists from Brunnental participated in the mass peasant uprisings and there was heavy fighting in the area. In 1922, some inhabitants fled to Germany to escape the hunger.
In 1877, a Lutheran church was built in the colony. There was also a prayer house used by those of the Reformed faith.
The Lutheran parish became an independent parish in 1882.
The Lutheran congregation in Brunnental was served by the following pastors:
Johann Jakob Stuber (1884-1906)
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Total
|
Male
|
Female
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| 1857 |
|
|
|
|
| 1859 |
75
|
547
|
285
|
262
|
| 1883 |
|
2,416
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
2,622
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
2,493*
|
1,268
|
1,225
|
| 1905 |
|
4,302
|
|
|
| 1910 |
420
|
4,653
|
2,377
|
2,276
|
| 1912 |
|
5,000
|
|
|
| 1920 |
538**
|
3,408
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
2,380
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
2,280
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
477
|
2,705
|
1,295
|
1,410
|
| 1931**** |
|
2,818
|
|
|
*Of whom 2,479 were German.
**Of which 534 households were German.
***Of which 470 households were German (2,688 individuals: 1,282 male & 1,406 female).
****Of whom 2,801 were German.
Village of Brunnental (Sherrie Stahl)
Village of Brunnental (David Karber)
Brunnental (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
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- Dietz, Jacob E. History of the Volga German Colonists (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2005): 218.
- Klaus, A.A. Our Colonies. Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1869.
- Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 311.
- List of Populated Places of the Russian Empire, vol. 36 (Samara Province). St. Petersburg, 1864.
- Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
- Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen – Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 198.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.
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Map showing the west end of Brunnental (1935).
Map showing the east end of Brunnental (1935).
Lutheran Church in Brunnental
Source: Sherrie Stahl
Interior of Lutheran Church in Brunnental
Source: Sherrie Stahl
Former Volga German school in Brunnental (2006).
According to Mrs. Becker and Marie (Greenwald) Bandey, this photograph was taken in 1907 in front of the Brunnental School when a large number of Brunnentaler's were leaving for the USA. It was a "farewell photo" for these families.
School in Brunnental (1927-28).
Source: Wladimir Badt.
Brunnental Dam (2006?) referenced in the "Famine Letter" published by Die Welt-Post on 11 September 1924.