The Volga German colony of Reinhard was founded on 15 July 1766 by colonists recruited by LeRoi & Pictet.
Reinhard's first mayor (Vorsteher) was Johann Christian Reinhard, and it is after him that the town received it's German name. By a Decree dated 26 February 1768, it was given the offical Russian name of Osinovka.
Today, what remains of the former colony of Reinhard is known as Osinovka.
Originally the Lutheran congregation in Reinhard was part of the Rosenheim parish which had been established in 1767.
The congregation in Reinhard was served by the following pastors:
- 1767-1785 Ludwig Helm
- 1777-1787? Daniel Willi
- 1786-1788 Laurentius Ahlbaum
- 1788-1791 Klaus Peter Lundberg
- 1792-1815 Mag. Christian Friedrich Jäger
- 1821-1826 Johann Hasthoffer
- 1830-1841 Johann Christian Lindblatt
- 1842-1851 Ferdinand Magnus Masing
- 1853-1880 Johannes Huppenbauer
- 1883-1896 Karl Theodor Hölz
- 1897-1908 Johann Solomon Kufeld
- 1912-1921 Wilhelm Miller
- 1929-1930 Johannes Schilling
Immigrated to the following locations
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
|
1767 |
33
|
89
|
|
|
|
1769 |
30
|
94
|
48
|
46
|
|
1773 |
30
|
100
|
49
|
51
|
|
1788 |
20
|
116
|
62
|
54
|
|
1798 |
27
|
162
|
91
|
71
|
|
1816 |
31
|
291
|
154
|
137
|
|
1834 |
67
|
578
|
295
|
283
|
|
1850 |
91
|
641
|
326
|
315
|
|
1857 |
87
|
796
|
427
|
369
|
|
1859 |
|
828
|
|
|
|
1889 |
|
1,348
|
|
|
|
1897 |
|
1,301*
|
672
|
629
|
|
1905 |
|
2,038
|
|
|
|
1910 |
218
|
2,135
|
1,080
|
1,055
|
|
1912 |
|
2,182
|
|
|
|
1920 |
241
|
1,437
|
|
|
|
1922 |
|
825
|
|
|
|
1926** |
178
|
853
|
402
|
451
|
|
1931 |
|
1,085***
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,290 were German.
**Of those 844 (399 male & 445 female) were German living in 174 households.
***Of whom 1,062 were German.
Reinhard (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
- Beratz, Gottieb. The German colonies on the Lower Volga, their origin and early development: a memorial for the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first German settlers on the Volga, 29 June 1764. Translated by Adam Giesinger (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1991): 352.
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Klaus, A. Our Colony [in Russian] (St. Petersburg, 1869): 2:14 & 4:56-57.
- List of Populated Areas of the Samara Province [in Russian] (Samara, 1910): 379.
- Orlov, Gregorii. Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II, 14 February 1769.
- Pallas, P.S. Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. Theil 3,2, Reise aus Sibirien zurueck an die Wolga im 1773sten Jahr (St. Petersburg: Kaiserl. Academie der Wissenschaften, 1776): 612.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 11, 19-28.
- Pleve, Igor R. The German Colonies on the Volga: The Second Half of the Eighteenth Century, translated by Richard Rye (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2001): 318.
- Preliminary Results of the All-Union Census of 1926 and ASSR Volga Germans (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): 196.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 17.
1767 Reinhard Census.
1798 Reinhard Census.
1834 Reinhard Census.
1850 Reinhard Census.
1857 Reinhard Census.
51.536697, 46.55967
Migrated From
Immigration Locations
Map showing Reinhard (1935).
Lutheran church in Reinhard.
Source: wolgadeutsche.ru
Sketch of the church in Reinhard.
Source: Stephan Dimitriev via wolgadeutsche.net.