Denver Metropolitan Area, Colorado
Denver, originally part of Kansas Territory, was founded in 1858. Today, Denver is the capital of the State of Colorado and its largest city. The city and county of Denver are one and the same, but what many consider to be "Denver" is also located in the surrounding counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas, Broomfield, and Jefferson.
Volga German families can be found living in and around Denver during the earliest years of immigration to North America.
The neighborhood of Denver that was originally founded by Volga Germans was known as Globeville, but today, Volga German descendants can be found in almost all neighborhoods of the Denver metropolitan area.
In Westminster, many Volga German families were affiliated with Valley Lutheran Church.
Globeville
Sallet reports that as early as 1885, Volga Germans were settling in the Globeville neighborhood of Denver, coming mostly from other Volga German settlements in the United States. By 1930 Globleville had an established settlement with well over 500 Protestant Volga German families from Norka, Beideck, Dobrinka, Dönhof and Frank along with 200 Roman Catholic Volga Germans mostly from the colony of Göbel.
Globeville was an independently incorporated as a town in 1891. In 1902, it was annexed into the city of Denver. The Globeville neighborhood northwest of downtown Denver was bisected and re-bisected by the construction of I-25 in 1958 and I-70 in 1964 which intersected in the heart of the neighborhood.
The following Volga German families settled in the Denver metropolitan area:
Achziger from Kolb
Adler from Kolb
Allendorf from Pfeifer
Alles from Walter
Alt
Amen
Anschutz from Nieder-Monjou
Appelhanz / Applehanz from Rothammel
Arndt from Norka
Arnhold from Beauregard
Artzer from Sewald
Aschenbrenner from Norka
Axt from Jost
Bahl from Kamenka
Ball from Streckerau
Ballinger from Herzog
Bangert from Dietel
Basgall / Baskall from Rothammel
Bastron from Frank
Bath from Frank
Bathauer from Göbel
Batt from Dietel
Bauer from Beideck
Bauer from Frank
Becker
Befort
Befus
Begler from Katharinenstadt
Beilman from Katharinenstadt
Beitz
Bernhardt
Bersch from Mariental
Berschauer from Kratzke
Bettinger
Betz from Neu-Messer
Bieker from Ober-Monjou
Billinger from Herzog
Bissing from Katharinenstadt
Bisterfeldt from Nieder-Monjou
Bittel / Bittle from Wittmann
Bitter from Lauwe
Blehm from Kratzke
Blum from Norka
Bohl from Huck
Borgens from Frank
Bott from Norka
Boxberger from Kratzke
Boxler from Mariental
Brack from Schönfeld
Brautigam from Kolb
Brecht from Schöntal
Brehm from Norka
Breit from Pfeifer
Brenning from Kutter
Bretthauer
Bretz from Köhler
Brill from Norka
Brotzmann from Huck
Brown from Herzog
Brug from Messer
Brungardt from Herzog
Buderus from Walter
Burbach from Norka
Busch from Dietel
Butherus from Walter
Butz
Buxbaum from Franzosen
Buxmann
Case from Göbel
Chrispens from Dobrinka
Dahlinger from Rosenberg
Dater from Zug
Deal from Dreispitz
Dechant from Ober-Monjou
Degenhardt from Sewald
Deghand from Pfeifer
Deines from Kratzke
Denning from Herzog
Depperschmidt from Liebental
Derr from Norka
DeWald from Hussenbach
Diehl
Dietz from Kratzke & Walter
Dinges from Wittmann
Dinkel from Herzog
Ditter from Frank
Dolberg from Neu-Beideck
Dorn from Walter
Dorzweiler from Katharinenstadt
Dotz from Enders
Dreiling from Herzog
Dreith from Beideck
Dumler
Eberle
Eckhardt from Frank
Ehrlich from Shcherbakovka
Eichler
Eichmann from Schwab
Eichorn from Dönhof
Eisenach from Frank
Eskam from Konstantinovka
Fabrizius from Kratzke
Fagler from Norka
Fahrenbruch
Falkenstein from Schuck
Fanestiel from Ober-Monjou
Feil from Dreispitz
Feuerstein
Filbert from Schilling
Fladung from Schönchen
Flohr from Merkel
Foos from Frank
Foos from Merkel
Frank from Louis
Frickel from Kautz
Friehauf from Norka
Fritz from Friedenfeld
Fritzler from Grimm
Fromm from Hussenbach
Fuchs / Fox
Funk from Hussenbach
Gablehouse from Norka
Galyardt
Gantz from Müller
Gareis from Köhler
Gasner from Brabander
Gassman from Mariental
Geist from Ober-Monjou
Gelroth from Bauer
Gerhardt
Geringer from Lauwe
Gerstner from Mariental
Gette from Semenovka
Gettmann from Brunnental
Giebelhaus from Norka
Giebler from Ober-Monjou
Giesick
Gittlein from Pfeifer
Glantz from Norka
Glassman from Rohleder
G(o)etz from Herzog
Gomer
Graf from Louis
Graff from Neu-Ober-Monjou
Grauberger from Dietel
Green from Norka
Greenmyer from Beideck
Greenwald from Beideck
Grosch from Grimm
Gross from Mariental
Groskopf from Frank
Gruenemeier from Beideck
Haas from Wittmann
Haberkorn from Göbel
Hamburger from Norka
Hammerschmidt from Herzog
Hanschu from Shcherbakovka
Harris from Schilling
Hartman from Rothammel
Heberlein from Walter
Heckel from Jost
Heidenreich from Messer
Heilbrun from Dietel
Heim from Pfeifer
Heimbichner from Frank
Hein from Frank
Heiser
Heit from Semenovka
Helfenbein from Stephan
Helwig from Moor
Helzer from Norka
Hempel from Huck
Henkel from Norka
Hepp from Liebental
Herbel
Herl from Wittmann
Herman from Liebental
Heronema from Mariental
Hershfeldt / Hirschfeld from Pfeifer
Hertel from Ober-Monjou
Hettinger from Dietel
Hildebrandt
Hill from Walter
Hilzer from Norka
Hintergardt from Stephan
Hochnadel from Schuck
Hoff from Frank
Hofferber
Hoffman from Graf
Hohnstein from Norka
Holman from Marienfeld
Horning
Horst
Huwa from Dönhof
Ingenthron(e) from Kamenka
Jacobs from Pfeifer
Jacoby
Jakel / Yekel
Jager / Jeger / Yeager from Dietel
Johannes from Kukkus
Jost / Yost
Juckert / Yuckert
Jung / Young
Kaeberle from Pfeifer
Kaiser
Kammer from Graf
Kammerzel(l) from Frank & Walter
Karlin from Katharinenstadt
Karst
Katzdorn from Zug
Kaufmann
Kautz from Merkel
Kechter from Kolb & Walter
Keller
Kerbs
Kern from Norka
Kindsvater from Dietel
Kippes from Pfeifer
Kisner from Pfeifer
Kissler
Klaus
Klein from Frank
Kleweno
Kloberdanz from Rothammel
Klug from Köhler
Knaub
Knaus from Kratzke
Knippel from Norka
Knoll from Herzog
Koch / Cook
Koehler from Beideck
Koerner from Katharinenstadt
Kohl from Ober-Monjou
Koleber from Kratzke
Komlofske from Husaren
Konrade from Pfeifer
Korbe from Mariental
Kraus
Krening
Kreutzer from Liebental
Krieger
Krom from Yagodnaya Polyana
Kroneberger from Dehler
Krumm from Kukkus
Kuehn from Neu-Beideck
Kunzman
Lais from Brunnental
Lambrecht from Pfeifer
Lang from Kamenka
Langhofer from Straßburg
Lapp from Frank
Laubhan from Shcherbakovka
Lauch
Lauer from Rothammel
Lebsack from Frank
Lechman
Lederhos from Rohleder
Lefler
Legleiter from Liebental
Lehl from Norka
Leikam from Katharinenstadt
Leiker from Ober-Monjou
Leonard
Lesser from Frank
Lichtenfeld
Lichtenwaldt from Dönhof
Lind from Dönhof
Lin(n)enberger from Herzog
Lipps from Messer
Lock from Kratzke
Lofing from Norka
Loos from Norka
Luft from Beideck
Luft from Gnadenflur
Lungren from Franzosen
Lutz from Frank
Mai from Kratzke
Maier
Manweiler from Rosenberg
Manweiler from Wiesenmüller
Margheim from Merkel
Mari from Sewald
Martin
Maul from Norka
Maul from Schilling
Meier from Louis
Meininger from Messer
Meis from Katharinenstadt
Meisinger from Neu-Messer
Meisner from Grimm
Meng
Mermis from Herzog
Michaelis from Kratzke
Milberger from Eckheim
Miltenberger from Rothammel
Mill from Dietel
Miller from Beideckz
Mohn from Moor
Mohrlang
Munsch from Schönchen
Nazarenus
Nau
Niedens from Wiesenmüller
Niernberger from Ober-Monjou
Nuss
Oblander
Ochs from Schönfeld
Ostermiller
Ostwald from Franzosen
Ostwald from Kautz
Pappenheim from Dönhof
Paul from Mariental
Peppler from Hussenbach
Pfanenstiel from Ober-Monjou
Pfeif from Frank
Pfeifer from Herzog & Pfeifer
Pfenning from Norka
Propp from Hussenbach
Quint from Liebental
Rade from Messer
Rebel from Neu-Kolonie
Reffel from Kana
Reiber
Reichert from Dietel
Reifschneider from Saalfeld (Rostov)
Reigenborn from Köhler
Rein
Reinick from Frank
Reisbeck
Reisig from Gnadentau
Reiswig
Reiter from Kautz
Reitz from Kukkus
Richmeier from Herzog
Rieb from Nieder-Monjou
Rieger
Riffel from Galka
Rodenberger from Hussenbach
Rohleder from Graf
Rohleder from Rohleder
Rohr from Mariental
Rome from Herzog
Rommel
Ross from Norka
Roth from Grimm
Rothe from Frank
Ruder from Wittmann
Ruhl
Ruppel from Reinwald
Rutt from Kolb
Sack from Semenovka
Sander from Herzog
Sauer from Norka
Sauer from Zug
Sauerbreit from Hussenbach
Savolt from Husaren
Schaaf from Huck
Schafer
Schaffer from Liebental
Schamberger from Kamenka
Scheck from Herzog
Scheidemann
Schell from Sewald
Scheller from Dönhof
Schenfeld from Marienfeld
Scheuermann
Schibbelhut from Rosenberg
Schiel from Göbel
Schillereff from Kolb
Schimpf from Oberdorf
Schlager from Merkel
Schleiger
Schleining
Schlitt from Norka
Schlotthauer
Schlundt from Bauer
Schmer from Norka
Schmick
Schmidt from Katharinenstadt
Schneider from Ährenfeld
Schneider from Göbel
Schneidmiller from Hussenbach
Schnell
Schnorr
Schoendaller from Liebental
Schott from Grimm
Schreibvogel from Wittmann
Schreiner
Schupman from Schönchen
Schwab from Galka
Schwabauer from Balzer
Schwabenland
Schwartzkopf from Neu-Dönhof
Schwien from Kratzke
Schwindt from Norka
Seitz from Mariental
Sell from Norka
Sevalt from Husaren
Sewald from Husaren
Simon from Neu-Bauer
Sinner
Sitzman from Frank
Spady from Norka
Spies from Liebental
Spreier from Dietel
Staab from Katharinenstadt
Stadler from Kamenka
Stang from Volmer
Stecklein from Zug
Stegman
Steinbach
Steinmark
Stencel / Stenzel from Hussenbach
Sterkel from Norka
Stoecklein from Zug
Stoll from Erlenbach
Stoppel from Nieder-Monjou
Strausheim from Frank
Strauch from Beideck
Strecker from Grimm
Stricker from Rosenberg
Stroemel from Kamenka
Stroh
Stroman from Dietel
Stumpf from Warenburg
Suppes
Tautfest
Thiel
Toepfer from Fischer
Traudt
Trupp
Ubert from Katharinenstadt
Uhrich from Frank
Ulrich
Urban from Kamenka
Vogel
Vonfelt
Wacker from Norka
Wagner
Waldschmidt from Ober-Monjou
Walter(s) from Katharinenstadt
Wamboldt
Wasinger from Herzog
Weaver from Liebental
Weber from Liebental
Weber from Messer
Wegelin from Merkel
Weidemann
Weigel from Herzog
Weil
Weinmeister from Dietel
Weiss
Weitzel from Rosenberg
Wendler from Ober-Monjou
Werth from Schönchen
Wewer from Liebental
Wiesner
Wilhelm
Willmann from Neu-Messer
Windholz from Herzog
Winter
Wirth
Wittmann from Eckheim
Wolf from Katharinenstadt
Worster from Schilling
Yaeger from Norka
Yeager from Norka
Yede from Streckerau
Yedo from Streckerau
Yost from Norka
Younger from Herzog
Zahn
Zeiler
Ziegler from Köhler
Zier from Dietel
Zimmermann from Schönchen
Zink from Marienfeld
Zwetzig
- Bardeen, Tara. "Neighborhood Ties: Globeville." Go Play Denver (2 January 2017). (online)
- Doeppers, Daniel F. "The Globeville Neighborhood in Denver." Geographical Review 57:4 (October 1967): 506-522.
- Reisbick, Anna M. Garden Place - Globeville: 1885-1950 (published by the author in 1995).
- Sallet, Richard. Russian-German Settlement in the United States (Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1974): 49-50, 60.
- Our Parish and the Globeville Community
- USA Settlement List (Patricia Miller)
- Denver (Wikipedia)
- Globeville Story : Germans from Russia (Mary Lou Egan)
- Westminster, Colorado (Wikipedia)
Ethnic Groupings, 1950
Globeville Neighborhood (Denver)
Source: Geographical Review, 1967.