Neu-Galka
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.
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.
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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
|
Female
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| 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.
Map of Neu-Galka (Jane Dye)
Neu-Galka (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
- 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.
Map showing Neu-Galka (1935).
Blueprints for the Lutheran Church in Neu-Galka, constructed in 1908. Source: wolgadeutsche.net
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