Enders was founded on 27 July 1765 by colonists who had been recruited by the tsarist government and was consequently known as a "Crown Colony." It is located on the banks of the Bolshoy Karaman River (Big Karaman River).
The colony is believed to be named after one of the Endersen family members who were founders of the colony. According to Christian August Tornow, the colony was called Peterson for the first couple of years after it was founded.
Today, what remains of the colony of Enders is known as Ust-Karaman.
Most of the original settlers were of the Lutheran faith practice. At its founding, the congregation in Enders was part of the Rosenheim parish which had been established in 1767.
The first church building was constructed in Enders in 1822. In 1860 a new building was constructed, also of wood. Today, nothing remains of the church.
The congregation in Enders was served by the following pastors:
- 1767-1785 Ludwig Helm
- 1777-1787? Daniel Willi
- 1786-1788 Laurentius Ahlbaum
- 1788-1791 Klaus Peter Lundberg
- 1792-1815 Mag. Christian Friedrich Jäger
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
40
|
107
|
|
|
| 1769 |
|
107
|
|
|
| 1773 |
32
|
108
|
53
|
55
|
| 1788 |
30
|
162
|
81
|
81
|
| 1798 |
35
|
186
|
101
|
85
|
| 1816 |
46
|
275
|
130
|
145
|
| 1834 |
57
|
483
|
249
|
234
|
| 1850 |
87
|
723
|
386
|
337
|
| 1857 |
88
|
918
|
478
|
440
|
| 1859 |
|
990
|
|
|
| 1883 |
|
1,290
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
1,323
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,365*
|
686
|
679
|
| 1904 |
|
2,053
|
|
|
| 1910 |
208
|
2,277
|
1,160
|
1,117
|
| 1912 |
|
2,376
|
|
|
| 1920 |
236
|
1,462
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,226
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
1,200
|
|
|
| 1926** |
238
|
1,199
|
547
|
652
|
| 1931 |
|
1,456***
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,361 were German.
**Of whom 1,197 (546 male & 651 female) were German living in 237 households.
***Of whom 1,440 were German.
Village of Enders (Beth Davenport)
Enders (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.
- Erbes, Johannes. Deutsche Volkszeitung (23 August 1906).
- Klaus, A. Our Colony [in Russian] (St. Petersburg, 1869): II:14; IV:56-57.
- List of Populated Areas of the Samara Province [in Russian] (Samara, 1910): 325.
- 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): 612.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 381-393.
- Pleve, Igor R. The German Colonies on the Volga: The Second Half of the Eighteenth Century, translated by Richard Rye (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2001): 318.
- Preliminary Results of the All-Union Census of 1926 and ASSR Volga Germans (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 17.
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Map showing Enders (1935).