Neu-Beideck
In 1858, Neu-Beideck was founded by resettlers from Beideck, Norka, Dönhof, Kutter, Balzer, and Schilling.
As a result of the anti-German renaming efforts during World War I, the colony went by the Russian name of Talovka.
Today, nothing remains of the former Volga German settlement of Neu-Beideck.
The colonists who originally settled in Neu-Beideck were Lutheran, but a Catholic congregation was also established there.
When it was founded, the Lutheran congregation belonged to the parish of Eckheim, but in 1882 became part of the parish of Brunnental. Originally, services were held in the school. In 1889, a new combination church/school building was constructed out of brick.
The original Catholic colonists were served by priests from the colony of Marienburg, and became officially part of that parish in the 1870s. About 1910, an independent Catholic parish was established in Neu-Beideck and served by Lithuanian and Polish priests from a nearby community. A wooden church building was eventually constructed.
Both the Lutheran and Catholic parishes were disbanded in the 1930s.
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Year
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Households
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Population
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Total
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Male
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Female
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| 1859 |
|
325
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
488
|
|
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
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| 1894 |
|
|
|
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| 1897 |
|
540*
|
276
|
264
|
| 1905 |
|
831
|
|
|
| 1910 |
110
|
971
|
498
|
473
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| 1912 |
|
1,000
|
|
|
| 1920 |
137**
|
825
|
|
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| 1922 |
|
350
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
100
|
536
|
263
|
273
|
| 1931 |
|
696****
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|
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*Of whom 531 were German.
*Of which 136 households were German.
**Of whom 526 (257 male & 269 female) were German living in 96 households.
***Of whom 689 were German.
- Neu-Beideck (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Klaus, A. Our Colony [in Russian] (St. Petersburg, 1869): II:16.
- Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 312.
- List of Populated Areas of the Samara Province [in Russian] (Samara, 1910): 351.
- 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.
Map showing the location of Neu-Beideck (1935).
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