Morgentau was founded in 1859 on the banks of the Belaya Kuba River 19 kilometers west of Gmelinskaya by Lutheran colonists resettling from Galka, Shcherbakovka, Kraft, Stephan, Schwab, and Holstein.
The Morgentau congregation founded in 1863 was an administrative Lutheran parish for the surrounding colonies.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1859 |
409
|
|
|
|
| 1883 |
|
1,502
|
|
|
| 1888 |
265
|
1,557
|
773
|
784
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,455
|
738
|
717
|
| 1904 |
|
2,183
|
|
|
| 1908 |
309
|
2,665
|
1,318
|
1,347
|
| 1910 |
323
|
2,873
|
1,426
|
1,447
|
| 1912 |
|
|
|
|
| 1920 |
366*
|
2,403
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,636
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
1,638
|
|
|
| 1926** |
342
|
1,597
|
762
|
835
|
| 1831 |
|
1,942***
|
|
|
*Of which 360 were German households.
**Of whom 1,577 (748 male and 829 female) were German living in 333 households.
***Of whom 1,927 were German.
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- Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
- Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen – Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 197.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 17.
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Map showing Morgentau (1935).
Church building in Morgentau.
Source: Jorge Bohn.