Gnadendorf

Names:

Blagodatnoye

Gnadendorf

Nachoi

Nakhoi

Гнадендорф

Благодатное

Нахой

Розовое

Rozovoye

Mother Colonies:

Krasnoyar

Enders

Fischer

History:

Gnadendorf was founded in 1859 [according to Klaus] on the right bank of the Nakhoi River. There appear to have been settlers there as early as 1850, however, because land distributions were made at that time.

In 1909, 219 people resettled to Siberia.

As of 1910, Gnadendorf had a Lutheran church, a school, a brick plant, and three wind mills.

During the Soviet era, Gnadendorf and neighboring Rosenfeld were merged into one administrative village. It's name today is Rozovoye.

Church:

The congregation in Gnadendorf was part of the Lutheran parish of Weizenfeld where the pastor also lived.

Notable Individuals:

Biehl, William "Billy Mahoney"

Biehl, Fred Jr. "Eddie Mahoney"

Surnames:

Aschenbrenner (Philippsfeld)

Sittner (Enders)

Gaus (Fischer)

Thomas (Philippsfeld)

Zeitler

Funk (Krasnoyar)

Schreiner (Krasnoyar)

Immigration:

Fresno Metropolitan Area, California

Sheboygan, Sheboygan Co., Wisconsin

Population:

Year	Households	Population
Year	Households	Total	Male	Female
1857			307
1883		1,176
1889		1,346
1894
1897		1,464*	713	751
1905		1,872
1910	217	2,062	1,024	1,038
1912		2,300
1920	255**	1,908
1922		1,406
1923		1,570
1926***	265	1,450	723	727
1931		1,945****

*Of whom 1,446 were German.
**Of which 254 households were German.
***Of whom 1,446 (720 male & 726 female) were German living in 265 households.
****Of whom 1,936 were German.

External Links:

Gnadendorf (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian

Sources:

- 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): 14.
- Klaus, A.A. Our Colonies. Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1869.
- 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.
- Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.