A group of colonists arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 July 1772 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hartwig. They departed Oranienbaum on 16 August 1772 and arrived in Saratov on 1 October 1772. They settled in the Volga German colony of Pobochnaya on 4 July 1773.
The 1798 census records that there was a fire in the village in 1794. It destroyed many, if not all of the homes, and that year's crops.
From the founding of the colony, there was a parochial school in Pobochnaya. The following are among the teachers of the school:
J.G. Kromm (1872-1874)
J. Rüger (1875-1909)
G. Graf (1895-1901)
J. Wolmann (1902-1903)
G. Geier (1904-1905)
J. Rüger (1909-1913)
The parochial school functioned until 1917, and following the Revolution it became a government elementary school.
As of 1926, there was a starch-plant located in Pobochnaya.
The collective farm of Pobochnaya was called V.I. Lenin. It was liquidated in 1959 and combined with the neighboring collective farm in Yagodnaya Polyana. In 1970, the village council of Pobochnaya was combined with that of Yagodnaya Polyana.
Today, nothing remains of the former colony of Pobochnaya.
The original settlers of Pobochnaya were Lutheran and Reformed. The congregation in Pobochnaya belonged to the Yagodnaya Polyana Parish.
In the early years, the colonists of the Reformed faith would worship in their homes. The Lutheran colonists went to neighboring Yagodnaya Polyana to attend worship services.
The 1798 census records that there is no church in the colony, but that the colonists workship in a Bethaus (prayer house).
Between 1803-1810, a large wooden church was built in the colony. It was officially closed on 19 April 1934 by a decree from the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Volga Germans. The building was then used as a community center ("house of culture").
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1773 |
|
73
|
|
|
| 1788 |
38
|
217
|
119
|
98
|
| 1798 |
31
|
285
|
330
|
296
|
| 1816 |
69
|
658
|
348
|
310
|
| 1834 |
130
|
1,409
|
714
|
695
|
| 1850 |
204
|
2,384
|
1,209
|
1,175
|
| 1857 |
215
|
2,930
|
1,527
|
1,403
|
| 1859 |
239
|
3,088
|
1,602
|
1,486
|
| 1883 |
|
2,461
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
2,516
|
1,188
|
1,328
|
| 1905 |
|
3,613
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
3,730
|
|
|
| 1911 |
392
|
3,278* |
1,575
|
1,684
|
| 1912 |
|
3,411
|
|
|
| 1926 |
|
2,967
|
|
|
*Of those, 3,259 were German.
- Pobochnaya (wolgadeutsche.net) [in Russian]
- Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 311.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): 158-159.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 19.
- 1773 Pobochnaya Census.
- 1798 Pobochnaya Census.
- 1834 Pobochnaya Census.
- 1857 Pobochnaya Census.
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Migrated From
Immigration Locations
Location of the former colony of Pobochnaya (2007).
Source: Valeria Taboyakova (via wolgadeutsche.net)
Location of the former colony of Pobochnaya (2007).
Source: Valeria Taboyakova (via wolgadeutsche.net)
Location of the former colony of Pobochnaya (2007).
Source: Valeria Taboyakova (via wolgadeutsche.net)
Location of the former colony of Pobochnaya (2007).
Source: Valeria Taboyakova (via wolgadeutsche.net)