In 1848, the daughter colony of Lilienfeld was founded by colonists resettling from the Wiesenseite colonies of Katharinenstadt, Orlovskaya, Boisroux, Ernestinendorf, Philippsfeld, Kaneau, and Paulskaya. It was also called Nilgenfeld by local residents.
Emigration from Lilienfeld to America began in 1878 when 11 people left.
The village was abandoned during the 1970s, and today, nothing remains of the former Volga German colony of Lilienfeld.
The original settlers of Lilienfeld were Lutheran. In the early years, the parish was unaffiliated and served irregularly by pastors coming from Reinhard, Näb, and both of the parishes in Katharinenstadt (north & south). In 1862, it officially became part of the Fresental parish where the pastor lived.
The laying of a foundation for a wooden church happened on 24 April 1903, and construction was completed in the spring of 1906. There was also a Bethaus (combination church & school) where services where held during the winter season.
By official decree, the church in Lilienfeld was closed on 11 February 1935.
Immigrated to the following locations
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Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
|
1850 |
33
|
239
|
125
|
114
|
|
1857 |
46
|
317
|
170
|
147
|
|
1859 |
81
|
1,223
|
639
|
584
|
|
1889 |
|
896
|
|
|
|
1891 |
|
|
|
|
|
1894 |
|
|
|
|
|
1897 |
|
913
|
440
|
473
|
|
1905 |
|
1,438
|
|
|
|
1910 |
280
|
1,584
|
777
|
807
|
|
1912 |
|
1,500
|
|
|
|
1920 |
221
|
1,423
|
|
|
|
1922 |
|
1,162
|
|
|
|
1923 |
|
1,075
|
|
|
|
1926* |
207
|
1,185
|
556
|
629
|
|
1931 |
|
1,404
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,178 were German (205 households: 552 male and 626 female).
- Белополье (исчезнувшее село, Советский район) (Russian Wikipedia)
- Lilienfeld Blog in Russian
- Lilienfeld photographs
- Lilienfeld (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
- Lilienfeld (Altenhoff.org)
- 1850 Lilienfeld Census.
- 1857 Lilienfeld Census.
- 1865 List of families relocating to Lilienfeld.
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- 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.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.
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Map showing Lilienfeld (1935).
Map of Lilienfeld compiled by Albert Reichert (1930s).
Source: Lilienfeld Blog.
New version of the Reichert map (2013).
Source: Wolgadeutsche.net per Heinrich Reichert.
Satellite image of the former colony of Lilienfeld with commentary by Vladimar Korkorin.
Source: Wolgadeutsche.net per Heinrich Reichert.
The former colony of Lilienfeld (2011).
Source: Vladimar Korkorin.