Rosendamm was a daughter colony founded in 1849 along the main railway line 26 kilometers southeast of Fyedorovka. The original re-settlers were Lutheran and came from the colony of Schaffhausen. In 1853 and 1856, additional re-settlers from Biberstein arrived in Rosendamm.
The colony's land allotment was 2,670 desyatina.
Today, the former colony of Rosendamm is known as Mortsy.
Rosendamm was a Lutheran colony that belonged to the Gnadenflur Parish.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1850 |
|
77
|
|
|
| 1857 |
79
|
174
|
|
|
| 1859 |
|
|
|
|
| 1883 |
|
1,000
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
1,070
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,217*
|
617
|
600
|
| 1904 |
|
1,817
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
2,042
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
2,200
|
|
|
| 1920 |
305
|
2,182
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,989
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
2,048
|
|
|
| 1926** |
366
|
2,103
|
1,030
|
1,073
|
| 1931*** |
|
2,103
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,207 were German.
**Of whom 2,096 were German (363 households: 1,026 male & 1,070 female).
***Of whom 2,022 were German.
- Rosendamm (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.
51.294554, 47.839617
Migrated From
Immigration Locations
Map showing Rosendamm (1935).