Luzern was founded on 20 June 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 Luzern as they were residing in other colonies at that time.
Today, what remains of the former colony of Luzern is known as Mikhaylovka.
The colonists that originally settled in Luzern were of the Roman Catholic faith.
The parish in Luzern was served by the following priests:
Alexander Schadursky (1838-1851)
Johann Thomas Lopazinsky (1851-?)
Michael Haag (1877-1878)
Georg Riessling (1880)
Joseph Altmeier (1909)
Augustin Gabel (1925-1930)
Immigrated to the following locations
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
|
1767 |
|
|
|
|
|
1769 |
44
|
140
|
76
|
64
|
|
1773 |
44
|
188
|
90
|
98
|
|
1788 |
42
|
217
|
113
|
104
|
|
1798 |
44
|
275
|
133
|
142
|
|
1816 |
65
|
484
|
267
|
217
|
|
1834 |
104
|
920
|
466
|
464
|
|
1850 |
154
|
1,515
|
768
|
747
|
|
1857 |
170
|
1,687
|
875
|
812
|
|
1859 |
|
1,507
|
|
|
|
1883 |
|
2,310
|
|
|
|
1889 |
|
2,365
|
|
|
|
1897 |
|
2,875*
|
1,511
|
1,364
|
|
1905 |
|
3,697
|
|
|
|
1910 |
523
|
3,575
|
1,791
|
1,784
|
|
1912 |
|
3,860
|
|
|
|
1920 |
663
|
3,556
|
|
|
|
1922 |
|
3,023
|
|
|
|
1926** |
594
|
2,823
|
1,353
|
1,470
|
|
1931 |
|
3,438***
|
|
|
*Of whom 2,865 were German.
**Of whom 2,818 (1,350 male & 1,468 female) were German living in 592 households.
***Of whom 3,435 were German.
- Remmler (Wolgadeutsche.net) [in Russian]
- 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): 352.
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- 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 Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
- Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II by Count Orlov, 14 February 1769.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.
- 1767 Luzern Census
- 1798 Luzern Census
- 1834 Luzern Census
- 1857 Luzern Census
- Luzern Parish Registers (Baptisms, Marriages, Burials) [Online - Darryl Boyd]
51.830333, 47.028
Migrated From
Immigration Locations
Map showing Luzern - on the right (1935).