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Neu-Galka

Names
Neu-Galka
Pallasovka
Ней-Галка
Новая Галка
Палласовка
Novaya Galka
Mother Colonies
History

In 1860, Neu-Galka was founded by colonists resettling from Galka and Dobrinka. Documents, however, indicate that these colonists had moved there well before 1860.

After the deportation of the Volga Germans in 1941, the settlement was absorbed into the nearby Russian town of Pallasovka and is today a neighborhood of Pallasovka.

Church

The congregation in Neu-Galka was part of the Lutheran parish headquartered in Alt-Weimar. A church building was constructed in the colony in 1908.

Population
Year
Households
Population
Total
Male
Female
1857
 
  303  
1888 221 1,222 643 579
1897   1,550*    
1908
240
2,225 1,130 1,095
1910
252
2,419
1,217
1,202
1920
418**
2,900
 
 
1922
 
2,710
 
 
1926
582
3,199***
1,567
1,624

*Of whom 1,503 were German.
**Of which 398 were German.
***Of whom 3,151 were German (1,542 men & 1,609 women) living in  566 households.

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): 198.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 17.

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Images

Map showing Neu-Galka (1935).

Blueprints for the Lutheran Church in Neu-Galka, constructed in 1908. Source: wolgadeutsche.net