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Neu-Dönhof

Names
Neu-Denhoff
Neu-Dönhof
Neu-Dönhoff
Novaya Golobovka
Novinka
Ней-Гололобовка
Ней-Денгоф
Новая Гололобовка
Новинка
Новое
Mother Colonies
History

In 1863, Neu-Dönhof was founded by colonists from Dönhof.

Following the 1941 deportation of the Volga Germans, Neu-Dönhof was renamed Novinka on 31 March 1944. That is the name by which it is known today.

Church

The Lutheran congregation in Neu-Dönhof was part of the Dietel parish and served by the pastors who lived there.

Population
Year
Households
Population
Total
Male
Female

1857

 
712
374
338

1859

 
 
 
 

1886*

158
1,599
816
763

1891

150
1,894
982
912

1894

180
1,811
937
874

1897

 
1,804**
914
890

1904

 
 
 
 

1911

 
2,090
 
 

1920

254
2,382
 
 

1922

 
2,104
 
 

1926***

357
2,368
1,161
1,207

1931

 
2,535
 
 

*Of whom 39 (7 households) were not German.
**Of whom 1,799 were German.
***Of whom 2,360 were German (349 households: 1,153 male & 1,207 female).

Sources

- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Fendel, Heinrich. History of the German Colony of Neu-Dönhof [in Russian] (online).
- Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 311.
- Mink, A.N. Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Saratov Province [in Russian] (Saratov, Russia, 1898): 162-164. (Online)
- 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): 18.

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