Rosenheim was founded on 27 July 1765 by colonists who had been recruited by the Tsarist government.
According to Christian August Tornow, the colony was called Sydicum during the first few years of its existance.
Today, what remains of the former colony of Rosenheim is known as Podstepnoye.
The Lutheran parish in Rosenheim was founded in 1767. The pastor of the Rosenheim parish also served the neighboring colonies of Schwed, Stahl am Karaman, Enders, Krasnoyar, Fischer, Schulz, and Reinwald. In 1820, the congregations in Schulz and Reinwald became part of the Reinhard parish and Fischer became part of the Katharinenstadt parish. in 1880, the colony of Krasnoyar also became an independent parish with its own resident pastor.
The first church building constructed in Rosenheim in 1821 was of wood. It was renovated in 1859, but fell into disrepair and was dismantled in 1876. In 1884, construction on a new brick building was begun, with dedication of the new church held on 21 September 1886. This building could seat 1,200 worshipers.
The organ was manufactured by the well-known German company "Walker" from Ludwigsburg. It was installed in 1886.
Following the 1941 deportation, the building was converted into a community center that included a theatre.
After falling into disrepair at the end of the Soviet era, the building was rehabilitated in the early years after the collapse of the Soviet Union as ethnic Germans returned to the area from Siberia and Kazakhstan. However, most of those people moved on to Germany after a few years and the building has again fallen into disuse. The ruins of this building still stand.
- 1767-1785 Ludwig Helm
- 1777-1787? Daniel Willi
- 1786-1788 Laurentius Ahlbaum
- 1788-1791 Klaus Peter Lundberg
- 1792-1815 Mag. Christian Friedrich Jäger
- 1816-1820 Franz Bernhard Hölz
- 1820-1831 Johann Heinrich Buck
- 1831-1866 Alexander Karl August Allendorf
- 1867-1879 Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer
- 1881-1894 Karl Julius Hölz
- 1894-1901 Karl Ernst Theodor David
- 1901-1911 Emil Friedrich Busch
- 1912-1922 Alexander Rothermel
- 1929-1931 Jakob Scharf
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
74
|
251
|
|
|
| 1769 |
65
|
226
|
141
|
85
|
| 1773 |
65
|
274
|
139
|
135
|
| 1788 |
54
|
254
|
138
|
116
|
| 1798 |
59
|
329
|
164
|
165
|
| 1816 |
70
|
488
|
246
|
242
|
| 1834 |
102
|
870
|
427
|
443
|
| 1850 |
142
|
1,263
|
625
|
638
|
| 1857 |
143
|
1,505
|
749
|
756
|
| 1859 |
|
1,540
|
|
|
| 1883 |
|
2,219
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
2,474
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
2,737*
|
1,393
|
1,344
|
| 1904 |
|
3,579
|
|
|
| 1910 |
473
|
4,224
|
2,081
|
2,143
|
| 1912 |
|
4,679**
|
|
|
| 1920 |
513
|
3,584
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
2,636
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
2,746
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
513
|
2,937
|
1,404
|
1,533
|
| 1931 |
|
3,146****
|
|
|
*Of whom 4,660 were German.
**Of whom 2,736 were German.
***Of whom 2,881 were German (509 households: 1,367 male & 1,514 female).
****Of whom 3,129 were German.
- Rosenheim (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
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- 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, 61-80.
- 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 Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
- Schnurr, Joseph, Die Kirchen und das Religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen - Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, 1972): 195.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 17.
The following resources are available for research into the families of Rosenheim:
Censuses for the following years: 1767, 1798, 1811, 1834, 1850, 1857.
51.666333, 46.4755
Migrated From
Immigration Locations
Map showing Rosenheim (1935).
Lutheran Church in Rosenheim (1927).
Source: wolgadeutsche.net.
Rosenheim Lutheran Church (2007).
Source: Alexander Bashkatov.
Rosenheim Lutheran Church (2007).
Source: Alexander Bashkatov.
Rosenheim Lutheran Church interior (2007).
Source: Alexander Bashkatov.
Rosenheim Lutheran Church balcony (2007).
Source: Alexander Bashkatov.
Rosenheim Lutheran Church (2007).
Evidence of its conversion into a theatre is visible.
Source: Alexander Bashkatov.