Degott was founded on 18 July 1766 by colonists who had been recruited by Baron de Boffe. Heinrich Degott served as the colony's first major (Vorsteher), and it is after him that the colony received its German name.
Today, nothing substantial remains of the former colony of Degott.
The original colonists of Degott were of the Roman Catholic faith.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1766 |
12
|
34
|
15
|
19
|
| 1767 |
14
|
42
|
|
|
| 1769 |
12
|
43
|
22
|
21
|
| 1773 |
14
|
50
|
27
|
23
|
| 1788 |
8
|
48
|
27
|
21
|
| 1798 |
13
|
78
|
42
|
36
|
| 1816 |
10
|
70
|
34
|
36
|
| 1834 |
25
|
166
|
87
|
79
|
| 1850 |
28
|
228
|
118
|
110
|
| 1857 |
26
|
248
|
123
|
125
|
| 1862 |
23
|
263
|
130
|
133
|
| 1886 |
45
|
379
|
197
|
182
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
46
|
421
|
216
|
205
|
| 1897 |
|
|
|
|
| 1904 |
|
|
|
|
| 1911 |
|
576
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
658
|
|
|
| 1920 |
79
|
543
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
456
|
|
|
| 1926 |
87
|
518
|
250
|
268
|
| 1931 |
|
615
|
|
|
Degott (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): 349.
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Mink, A.N. Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Saratov Province [in Russian] (Saratov, Russia, 1898): 379-381.
- 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): 622.Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 263-266.
- Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
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Map showing Degott (1935).