Lutheran colonists resettling from Galka founded Alt-Weimar in 1861 [although there were families living there already according to the 1857 census]. Eventually, they were joined by resettlers from the colonies of Stephan, Schwab, Dobrinka, and Moor. The origin of the name of the colony is unknown.
In 1881, the colonists constructed a dam near the settlement.
By 1910, there were located in the colony a prayer house, a government school, and three windmills.
Following the 1941 deportation of the Volga Germans, the settlement was renamed to Staraya Ivantsovka, and this is its name today.
The Lutheran parish in Alt-Weimar was founded in 1876. A prayer house (Bethaus) was located in the colony.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1883 |
|
555
|
|
|
| 1888 |
109
|
606
|
302
|
304
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
654*
|
|
|
| 1904 |
|
1,170
|
|
|
| 1908 |
|
1,311
|
632
|
679
|
| 1910 |
120
|
1,440
|
705
|
735
|
| 1912 |
|
1,400
|
|
|
| 1920 |
224
|
1,325
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,016
|
|
|
| 1926** |
211
|
1,030
|
505
|
525
|
*Of whom 646 were German.
**Of whom, 205 households were German (1,015 total; 498 male & 517 female).
Alt-Weimar (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.
- Klaus, A.A. Our Colonies. Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1869 (Appendix II, p.17).
- Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 311.
- List of the Populated Places of the Samara Province (Samara, Russia, 1910): 380.
- Preliminary Totals of the All-Union Population Census of 1926 for the Volga German ASSR (Pokrovsk, Russia, 1927): pp.28-83.
- Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen – Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 198.
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Map of Alt-Weimar (on the left) and Neu-Weimar (on the right) - 1935.