Morgentau

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.

Church:

The Morgentau congregation founded in 1863 was an administrative Lutheran parish for the surrounding colonies.

Notable Individuals:

Asnaworjanz, Moses

Blum, Karl Wilhelm Theodor

David, Ernst Theophil

Dittrich, Samuel Petrus

Immigration:

Sheboygan, Sheboygan Co., Wisconsin

Fort Morgan, Morgan Co., Colorado

Powell, Park Co., Wyoming

Wiggins, Morgan Co., Colorado

Belle Fourche, Butte Co., South Dakota

Vale, Butte Co., South Dakota

Merino, Logan Co., Colorado

Deadwood, Lawrence Co., South Dakota

Scottsbluff, Scotts Bluff Co., Nebraska

Colfax, Whitman Co., Washington

Seattle Metropolitan Area, Washington

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, California

Spokane, Spokane Co., Washington

Pullman, Whitman Co., Washington

Saint John, Whitman Co., Washington

Portland Metropolitan Area, Oregon

Eugene, Lane Co., Oregon

Endicott, Whitman Co., Washington

Mannville, Alberta

Dusty, Whitman Co., Washington

Potapov, Volgodonski District, Rostov Oblast

Gering, Scotts Bluff Co., Nebraska

Leader, Saskatchewan

Laurel, Yellowstone Co., Montana

Huntley, Yellowstone Co., Montana

Puyallup, Pierce Co., Washington

Walla Walla, Walla Walla Co., Washington

Dillon, Beaverhead Co., Montana

Hysham, Treasure Co., Montana

Billings, Yellowstone Co., Montana

Oakland Metropolitan Area, California

Minneapolis / St. Paul Metropolitan Area, Minnesota

Population:

Year	Households	Population
Year	Households	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.

External Links:

Morgentau (wolgadeutsche.net) [in Russia]
Morgentau (Jeruslan Nachrichten)

Sources:

- 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.
- 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.