Hummel

Names:

Alexandrovskaya

Alexandrovskoye

Brockhausen

Buerak

Buyerak

Hummel

Александровское

Брокгаузен

Буерак

Гуммель

Daughter Colonies:

Erlenbach (Wiesenseite)

History:

Hummel was founded on 14 July 1767 by colonists who had been recruited by Baron Caneau de Beauregard.

The 1767 census does not include a list of the original colonists in Hummel as they were residing in other colonies at that time.

Johannes Hummel (age 70) is recorded on the 1798 census of Hummel in Household No. Hm08. It appears that the colony got its German name from him.

Today, what remains of the colony of Hummel is known as Buyerak.

Church:

Hummel was originally part of the Lutheran parish headquartered in Bettinger. In 1820, it became part of the Näb parish.

In 1857, a wooden church was constructed in Hummel. It could seat 400 worshipers.

Immigration:

Leipzig (Stadt), Sachsen (Post-1941)

Population:

Year	Households	Population
Year	Households	Total	Male	Female
1767
1769	16	109	52	57
1773	22	86	35	51
1788	23	107	56	51
1798	35	142	78	64
1816	34	243	121	122
1834	47	431	216	215
1850	64	567	289	278
1857	69	645	334	311
1859		666
1883		757
1889		999
1897		1,044	501	543
1905		1,438
1910	250	1,572	780	792
1912		1,650
1920	215	1,396
1922		780
1926	148	771	385	386
1931		990*

*Of whom 988 were German.

External Links:

Brockhausen (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian

Sources:

- 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.
- Dietz, Jacob E. History of the Volga German Colonists. Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2005.Klaus, A.A. Our Colonies (Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1869): 2:13; 4:52-53.
- List of the Populated Places of the Samara Province (Samara, Russia, 1910): 292.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Hm08.
- 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): 613.
- Preliminary Totals of the All-Union Population Census of 1926 for the Volga German ASSR (Pokrovsk, Russia, 1927): 28-83.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.