Weimar

Names:

Alt-Weimar

Alt-Vantzovka

Vorontzovka

Weimar

Альт-Веймар

Старая Ванцовка

Старая Иванцовка

Воронцовка

Веймар

Staraya Ivantsovka

Staraya Vantzovka

Weimer

Mother Colonies:

History:

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.

Church:

The Lutheran parish in Alt-Weimar was founded in 1876. A prayer house (Bethaus) was located in the colony.

Notable Individuals:

Asnaworjanz, Moses

Brandt, Karl Hermann Peter

Inser, Otto August

Jürgenson, Wilhelm Julius Anton

Schwartz, Johann Georg

Rau, Paul

Population:

Year	Households	Population
Year	Households	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).

External Links:

Alt-Weimar (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian

Sources:

- 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.