Isenburg

Names: 
Isenburg
Isendorf
Issenburg
Иссенбург
Иссендорф
Большие Пруды
Bolshoi Prudy
Mother Colonies: 
History: 

Founded before 1914, the khutor (farmstead) of Isenburg was located 15 kilometers southeast of the railroad station at Gmelinskaya.

Following the early Soviet era collectivization, it grew to became a rather large Collective Farm called "Ainigkait".  Today, what remains of the former Volga German settlement of Isenburg is called Bolshi Prudy.

Church: 

There was not a church in Isenburg.

Population: 
Year
Households
Population
Total
Male
Female
1897
 
5
 
 
1910
 
26
 
 
1920
44*
317
 
 
1922
 
390
 
 
1926**
46
267
135
132
1931
 
646***
 
 

*Of which 41 households were German.
**Of whom 142 were German (45 households: 134 male & 132 female).
***Of which 550 were German.

Sources: 

- Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.

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