Neu-Mariental
Neu-Mariental was founded in 1864 as a Roman Catholic colony and named after the Mother Colony from which most of the resettlers came. It is located 7 versts from Alexanderhöh.
As of 1910, the colony had a Roman Catholic Church, a school, and 3 windmills.
Today, what remains of the former colony of Neu-Mariental is administratively connected to the village of Lebedevo.
The congregation in Neu-Mariental belonged to the Roman Catholic parish headquartered in Liebental where there was a resident priest.
There was a wooden church built in Neu-Mariental in 1867.
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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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| 1857 |
|
|
255
|
|
| 1888 |
122
|
595
|
305
|
290
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| 1891 |
|
|
|
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| 1894 |
|
|
|
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| 1897 |
|
634*
|
320
|
314
|
| 1905 |
|
793
|
|
|
| 1908 |
130
|
1,053 |
533
|
520
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| 1910 |
194
|
1,149
|
563
|
586
|
| 1912 |
|
1,300
|
|
|
| 1920 |
164
|
969
|
|
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| 1922 |
|
432
|
|
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| 1926** |
132
|
729
|
352
|
377
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| 1931 |
|
1,047***
|
|
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*Of whom 628 were German.
**Of whom 724 (350 male & 374 female) were German, living in 131 households.
***Of whom 1,028 were German.
Neu-Mariental (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): 313.
- 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): 17.
Map showing Neu-Mariental (1935).
Neu-Mariental's Catholic Church.
Source: Heimatbuch, 1972.
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