Erlenbach (Wiesenseite)

The daughter colony of Erlenbach on the Wiesenseite was founded in 1840 by colonists resettling from Meinhard and Philippsfeld along with the Schander family from Basel. It was located 29 kilometers northeast of Fyedorovka on the right bank of the Mius River.

Today, what remains of the former Volga German settlement of Erlenbach is administratively part of the town of Chkalovo.

Church:

The Lutheran parish in Erlenbach was served by the pastor from Gnadenflur.

Surnames:

Schander

Fries (Hummel)

Freund (Basel / Warenburg)

Hahn (Basel)

Kaufmann (Philippsfeld)

Rothermel (Orlovskaya)

Käther

Schnegelberger

Roth (Wittmann)

Population:

Year	Households	Population
Year	Households	Total	Male	Female
1850
1857
1859
1889		275
1891
1894
1897		428
1904
1910		465
1920	88*	720
1922		883
1926	103	710**	343	367
1931		916***

*Of which 85 were German.
**Of whom 701 were German (100 households: 337 male & 364 female).
***Of whom 910 were German.

External Links:

- Erlenbach (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian

Sources:

- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.