Ostenfeld was founded by Mennonite colonists from West Prussia in 1872. The colony was named in honor of the Chief Administrator of the Kontora (Office of Immigrant Oversight), Herr Osten-Sacken. Ostenfeld was one of a group of Mennonite Colonies known as the Am Trakt Settlement.
Today, what remains of Ostenfeld is known as Voroshilovo.
The colonists in Osterfeld were members of the Köppental-Orloff congregation.
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Year
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Households
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Population
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Total
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Male
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Female
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| 1886 |
|
|
|
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| 1891 |
|
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|
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| 1894 |
|
|
|
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| 1897 |
19
|
127
|
66
|
61
|
| 1904 |
|
|
|
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| 1910 |
19
|
149
|
77
|
72
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| 1920 |
27
|
269
|
|
|
| 1926 |
38
|
295
|
137
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158
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Ostenfeld (Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online)
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Dietz, Jacob E. History of the Volga German Colonists (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2005): 402.
- Dyck, Johannes J. Am Trakt: A Mennonite Settlement in the Central Volga Region. Winnipeg, MB: CMBC Publications, 1995.
- List of the Populated Places of the Samara Province (Samara, Russia, 1910): 334.
- Preliminary Totals of the All-Union Population Census of 1926 for the Volga German ASSR (Pokrovsk, Russia, 1927): pp.28-83.
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Map showing Ostenfeld (1935).