Streckerau was founded on the left bank of the Bizyuk River in 1863. The group of founding families included:
from Kamenka - 114 male, 75 female
from Pfeifer - 60 male, 51 female
from Sewald - 4 male, 3 female
from Rohleder - 32 male, 23 female
from Schuck - 42 male, 25 female
from Leichtling - 25 male, 22 female
from Husaren - 11 male, 11 female
from Vollmer - 22 male, 20 female
from Marienfeld - 3 male, 3 female
from Josefstal - 1 male, 1 female
from Hildmann - 4 male, 2 female
from Göbel - 20 male, 9 female
from Rothammel - 1 male, 1 female
from Semenowka - 3 male, 5 female
By 1875, 53 families from Dehler and 2 from Neu-Kolonie had also relocated to Streckerau.
Immigration to American began in 1876 with the departure of 56 colonists.
Today, what remains of the former Volga German colony of Streckerau is known as Novokamenka.
Streckerau was originally served by the Catholic parish in Marienberg. It became an independent parish with a resident pastor of its own in 1903.
In the beginning, worship services were held in a Bethaus (combination church/school building). Construction of the first church began in 1875 with materials from the church in Neu-Kolonie that had been dismantled in 1870. The new church in Streckerau was a large building (40 meters long by 15 meters wide) and built out of wood. The church was consecrated to St. Anthony by Bishop Anton Zerr in 1876. In 1910, a new oak altar, pulpit with pictures of the four apostles and St. Wendelin, and several other sculptures that had been designed by P. Stuflesser were installed. The church did not have an organ but used a harmonium for leading the singing during worship services.
A new parsonage was built next to the church in 1899.
In 1931, the church was officially closed by the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the ASSR of the Volga Germans. It was used as a community center after that.
From 1863 to 1870, the parishoners in Streckerau were served by the deacon from Seelmann. Beginning in 1870, the following priests served the congregation in Streckerau:
Xenon Kalinowski (1873-1875)
Joseph Schewtschinski, deacon (1875-1879)
Johannes Bach (1879-1885)
Markus Marsal (1885-1886)
Raymond v. Andreschejskowitsch (1886-1887)
Georg Sauer (1887-1889)
Father Jassenas (1890-1892)
Matthias Schidagis (1892-1895)
Franz Löwenbrück (1895-1900)
Johannes Beilmann (1900-1903)
Michael Brungardt (1903-1907)
Joseph Altmeier (1908-1914)
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
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| 1883 |
|
991
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
1,291
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,447*
|
732
|
715
|
| 1904 |
|
|
|
|
| 1910 |
265
|
2,494
|
1,338
|
1,156
|
| 1912 |
|
2,392
|
|
|
| 1920 |
258
|
1,525
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
915
|
|
|
| 1926** |
235
|
1,248
|
612
|
636
|
| 1931 |
|
2,062***
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,437 were German.
**Of whom 1,245 (611 male & 634 female) were German living in 234 households.
***Of whom 2,059 were German.
- Predestination (Galina Mironenko)
- Streckerau (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
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- Dietz, Jacob E. History of the Volga German Colonists (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2005): 241-242.
- Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 313.
- Rohrbach, Paul, Deutschtum in Not! Die Schicksale der Deutschen in Europa außerhalb des Reiches (Karlsruhe: Dortmund o.J., 1927.
- Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
- Schnurr, Joseph, "Die deutsche Kolonie Streckerau (Kreis Nowousensk) Zum 50jähringen Jubiläum ihres Bestehens" in Die Kirchen, die Geistlichen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen Katholiken auf dem Boden der Tiraspoler Diözese, (Stuttgart: Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, 1972): 131.
- Schnurr, Joseph, Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen, Katholischer Teil (Stuttgart: Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, 1980): 273.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 18.
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Map showing Streckerau on the bottom (1935).
[Strassenfeld is above, across the river.]
St. Anthony Catholic Church in Streckerau, built in 1875-1876.
Source: Heimatbuch der Deutschen aus Russland, 1972.
Map of Streckerau (as of 1941).
Source: Jorge Bohn.
Streckerau in 1920.
Source: Deutsches Bundesarchiv.
Streckerau in 1927.
Source: Paul Rohrbach.
Streckerau
Source: Jorge Bohn.
Streckerau
Source: Jorge Bohn.