Eckheim was founded in 1855 by resettlers from the Bergseite colonies of Holstein, Müller, Galka, Kraft, Schwab, Dobrinka, Grimm, and Shcherbakovka. Friedenfeld, th enearest railway station, is 13 miles away.
In 1915, its name was changed to Skatovka.
Eckheim was a Lutheran colony and an an independent parish was established there in 1865.
The following pastors served the congregation in Eckheim:
1867-1868 Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Keller
1869-1877 Wilhelm Stärkel
1894-1931 Johannes Allendorf
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Year
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Households
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Population
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Total
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Male
|
Female
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| 1857 |
|
|
406
|
|
| 1859 |
|
|
|
|
| 1886 |
|
|
|
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,339*
|
681
|
658
|
| 1904 |
|
|
|
|
| 1910 |
238
|
2,321
|
1,195
|
1,126
|
| 1912 |
|
2,200
|
|
|
| 1920 |
286**
|
1,831
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
292
|
1,565
|
751
|
814
|
*Of whom 1,328 were German.
**Of which 283 households were German.
***Of those, 288 households (1,555 individuals: 746 male & 809 female) were German.
Eckheim (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): 16.
- Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 312.
- List of the Populated Places of the Samara Province (Samara, Russia, 1910): 350.
- Sallet, Richard. Russian-German Settlements in the United States (Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1974).
- Preliminary Totals of the All-Union Population Census of 1926 of the ASSR of the Germans of Volga Region (Pokrovsk, Russia, 1927): 28-83.Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen – Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 197.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 18.
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Immigration Locations
Map showing Eckheim (1935).