Rosental (Mennonite)
Rosental was a daughter colony founded in 1875 by Mennonite colonists from West Prussia. Rosental was one of a group of Mennonite Colonies known as the Am Trakt Settlement.
The Mennonites there belonged to the parish in Köppental.
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Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Total
|
Male
|
Female
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| 1900 |
8
|
57
|
23
|
34
|
| 1908 |
|
81
|
40
|
41
|
| 1910 |
8
|
84
|
44
|
40
|
| 1920 |
8
|
99
|
|
|
| 1926 | 11 | 89 | 48 | 41 |
- Rosental (wolgadeutsche.net) [in Russian]
- 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.
- Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
Map showing the location of the Mennonite colony of Rosental - the two dark lines north of Wiesental. (1935)
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