Neu-Urbach
According to Klaus, Neu-Urbach was founded in 1860. It was named after Urbach, the colony from which many of its original colonists came.
The colony of Urbach Station was located just south along the railroad line.
As of 1910, the colony had 2 schools and 3 windmills.
There was a Lutheran prayer house in the colony.
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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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| 1850 |
|
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| 1857 |
|
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| 1859 |
|
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| 1886 |
|
|
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| 1891 |
|
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| 1894 |
|
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| 1897 |
|
560*
|
284
|
276
|
| 1904 |
|
|
|
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| 1910 |
145
|
901
|
442
|
459
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| 1912 |
|
1,600
|
|
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| 1920 |
135
|
782
|
|
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| 1926 |
99
|
533**
|
258
|
275
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*Of whom 554 were German.
**Of whom 527 were German (96 households: 256 male & 271 female).
- Neu-Urbach (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Klaus, A.A. Our Colonies. Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1869.
- 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.
- 1861 Neu-Urbach Census.
Map showing the location of Neu-Urbach - upper left (1935).
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