In 1849, Fresental was founded 63 kilometers southeast of Engels on the left bank of the Bolshoi Karaman River by colonists resettling from Reinhard. Fresental was the name of the office manager in the Kontora (Office of Immigrant Oversight) at the time.
Pastor Adolph Hermann Asmus was a native of Fresental.
There were a Lutheran church and a school located in the colony by 1859. The Fresental parish became an independent Lutheran parish in 1862 with a resident pastor.
There were also Mennonites living in the colony.
The parish in Fresental was served by the following pastors:
1869-1873 Isaak Theophil Keller
1875-1876 Samuel Theophil Bonwetsch
1879-1881 Karl Theodor Wilhelm Blum
1887-1914 Friedrich Ernst Heinrichsen
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1850 |
40
|
375
|
190
|
185
|
| 1857 |
42
|
443
|
232
|
211
|
| 1859 |
42
|
462
|
242
|
220
|
| 1883 |
|
733
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
859
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
888*
|
461
|
427
|
| 1905 |
|
1,239
|
|
|
| 1910 |
192
|
1,580
|
782
|
798
|
| 1912 |
|
1,300
|
|
|
| 1920 |
195
|
1,236
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
781
|
|
|
| 1926 |
157
|
888**
|
433
|
455
|
| 1931 |
|
1,041
|
|
|
*Of whom 876 were German.
**Of whom 887 were German (156 househods: 432 male & 455 female).
- Fresental (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
- Die Namengebung zweier Wolgadeutscher Dörfer, 1983 (p.14).
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Herdt, Karl. Die Namengebung zweier Woldadeutscher Dörfer, Alexanderdorf und Höh (Alexander-Höh): am Nachoistrom gelegen sowie Episoden aus dem damaligen Bauernleben und Skizzen aus der Steppentierwelt (Espelkamp: K. Herdt, 1983): 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.
- 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): 197.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 17.
51.35, 46.95
Migrated From
Immigration Locations
Map showing Fresental (1935).
Map of Colonies along the Nachoi River (1860) also showing Fresental along the Bolshoi Karaman.
Source: Die Namengebung zweier Wolgadeutscher Dörfer, 1983 (p.14).