Schwab
Schwab was founded on 8 July 1767 colonists who had been recruited by agents of Tsarina Katharina's government, and was therefore known as a Crown Colony. It was named after Johann Georg Schwab, the first mayor (Vorsteher) of the colony.
According to Christian August Tornow, the colony was also known as Schwabe during its early years.
Today, what remains of the former colony of Schwab is known as Butkovka.
The Lutheran congregation in Schwab was part of the Stephan parish which had been founded in 1771.
The congregation in Schwab was served by the following pastors:
- 1771-1778 Johann Kaspar Brauns
- 1778-1778 Laurentius Ahlbaum
- 1779-1782 Klaus Peter Lundberg
- 1782-1788 Jakob Alexander Topelius
- 1798-1811 Karl Adolf Günther
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
45
|
132
|
|
|
| 1769 |
44
|
158
|
81
|
77
|
| 1773 |
45
|
187
|
102
|
85
|
| 1788 |
43
|
260
|
132
|
128
|
| 1798 |
45
|
310
|
159
|
151
|
| 1816 |
75
|
506
|
237
|
269
|
| 1834 |
98
|
832
|
439
|
393
|
| 1850 |
142
|
1,277
|
672
|
605
|
| 1857 |
139
|
1,328
|
697
|
651
|
| 1859 |
110
|
1,342
|
707
|
635
|
| 1886 |
117
|
959
|
483
|
476
|
| 1891 |
118
|
1,638
|
832
|
807
|
| 1894 |
118
|
1,783
|
900
|
883
|
| 1897 |
|
1,119
|
561
|
558
|
| 1904 |
|
1,919
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
2,203
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
2,295
|
|
|
| 1920 |
209*
|
1,204
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
872
|
|
|
| 1926 |
205
|
1,105
|
522
|
583
|
| 1931 |
|
1,176**
|
|
|
*Of which 208 households were German.
**Of whom 1,174 were German.
Schwab (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
Village of Schwab (Rolene Kiesling)
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- Schnurr, Joseph, Die Kirchen und das Religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen - Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, 1972): 193.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 18.
Map showing Schwab (1935).
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