Herzog
The Volga German colony of Herzog was founded on 14 July 1766 by colonists recruited by LeRoi & Pictet. It was named after Mathias Herzog, one of the early leaders of the colony.
By edict dated 26 February 1768, the colony received its official Russian name of Susly. Christian August Tornow records that the colony was called Scheel during the first couple of years after it was founded.
Today, nothing remains of the former colony of Herzog.
The original settlers of Herzog were of the Roman Catholic faith. The congregation there was a part of the Rohleder parish until 1903.
A new church built of brick was completed in 1897. It was demolished during the Soviet era and the bricks used to build a school in nearby Mariental.
The parish in Herzog was served by the following priests:
Gabriel Gwamaradse (1904-1905)
Alois Vondrau (1905-?, 1910)
Georg Baier, Jr. (1909)
Gottlieb Beratz (1911-1921)
Johannes Falkenstein (1918-1928)
Alois Ocks (1928)
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
35
|
114
|
60
|
54
|
| 1769 |
32
|
127
|
66
|
61
|
| 1773 |
32
|
141
|
70
|
71
|
| 1788 |
|
142
|
|
|
| 1798 |
|
196
|
109
|
87
|
| 1816 |
|
364
|
|
|
| 1834 |
|
642
|
|
|
| 1850 |
|
966
|
|
|
| 1857 |
|
|
|
|
| 1859 |
|
1,290
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
1,383
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,393*
|
711
|
682
|
| 1905 |
|
2,010
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
1,953
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
2,357
|
|
|
| 1920 |
334**
|
2,136
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,066
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
262
|
1,427
|
676
|
751
|
| 1931 |
|
1,507****
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,387 were German.
**Of which 333 households were German.
***Of whom 1,418 were German (259 households: 673 male & 745 female).
****Of whom 1,501 were German.
Herzog (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian
Herzog (Susly), Russia (Kevin Rupp)
Welcome to the Herzog, Russia Homepage (Jerry Braun & Roger Toepfer)
- 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): 350.
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Erbes, Johannes. Deutsche Volkszeitung (23 August 1906).
- Orlov, Gregorii. Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II, 14 February 1769.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 87-96.
- 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): 17.
Map showing Herzog (1935).
Colony of Herzog.
Photo of the Catholic Church in Herzog taken in 1911 when Joseph Linenberger was visiting there from Kansas. Joseph is fifth from the left.
Source: Trecil Dreiling.
Herzog, Russia
Karaman River in the foreground.
[Notice the camels on the far bank.]
Map of Herzog (1920)
Drawn by Johannes Riedel in 1968.
Source: Wolgadeutsche.net
A memorial stone at the site of the former colony of Herzog (2019).
Source: Gary Leikam.
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