Loveland, Larimer Co., Colorado
Loveland is one of the oldest Colorado settlements of Volga Germans. Many of them came to Loveland directly from the colonies of Frank, Ober-Monjou, and Rosenberg while another large group came from McCook, Nebraska, where they had settled earlier.
Volga Germans arrived in Larimer County in large numbers shortly after Loveland's sugar factory opened in 1901. In the Spring of 1902, "chartered" trains sponsored by the sugar companies brought hundreds of Volga German families from Nebraska and Kansas to northern Colorado to work in the sugar beet industry.
The following Volga German families settled in and around Loveland:
Achziger from Kolb
Amen from Frank
Arnhold from Beauregard
Aschenbrenner from Norka
Bath from Frank
Bauer from Frank
Beitz from Michaelsdorf (North Caucasus)
Bellendir from Köhler
Beltz from Kutter
Bender from Kratzke
Borgens from Frank
Brenning from Kutter
Chrispens from Dobrinka
Dechant from Ober-Monjou
Deines from Kratzke
Depperschmidt from Liebental
Dietz from Walter
Domme from Pfeifer
Dorn from Walter
Dreith from Beideck
Eckhardt from Frank
Erbes from Dönhof
Fabrizius from Kratzke
Fagler from Norka
Feuerstein from Norka
Fladung from Schönchen
Floth from Frank
Frank from Dönhof
Frick from Frank
Gassman from Mariental
Gerstner from Mariental
Gies from Walter
Glantz from Norka
Grauberger from Dietel
Hahn from Dönhof
Hein from Frank
Hepp from Liebental
Hergenreter from Sewald
Heronemus from Warenburg
Hirschfeld from Pfeifer
Hoff from Frank
Kaeberle from Pfeifer
Katzendorn from Zug
Kechter from Walter
Kinderknecht from Mariental
Korbe from Mariental
Krug from Kratzke
Kukus from Kukkus
Lang from Kamenka
Lapp from Frank
Leffler from Grimm
Lesser from Frank
Lofing from Norka
Luft from Beideck
Luft from Gnadenflur
Lutz from Frank
Mai from Kratzke
Marsch from Neu-Messer
Meisinger from Neu-Messer
Muntz from Kolb
Nazarenus
Ostermiller from Beideck
Peppler from Hussenbach
Reichert from Dietel
Reider from Kautz
Roth from Grimm
Rothe from Frank
Rutt from Kolb
Sauer from Norka
Sauer from Zug
Schaaf from Huck
Scheck from Herzog
Scheideman from Norka
Schleining from Norka
Schlidt from Norka
Schmer from Norka
Schmer from Oberdorf
Schneider from Göbel
Stenzel from Hussenbach
Sterkel from Norka
Stoecklein from Zug
Stumpf from Warenburg
Suppes from Pfeifer
Uhrich from Frank
Urban from Kamenka
Waldschmidt from Ober-Monjou
Walker from Frank
Werth from Schönchen
Wirtz from Beideck & Michaelsdorf (North Caucasus)
Willmann from Neu-Messer
Yost from Norka
Zeiler from Frank
- Sallet, Richard. Russian-German Settlement in the United States (Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1974): 50-51.
- USA Settlement List (Patricia Miller)
Loveland, Colorado (Wikipedia)
Great Western Sugar Beet Factory in Loveland, Colorado (ca.1910).
Source: Cindy Feneis Collection of the Loveland Historical Society.