Johann Sebastian Litzenberger, son of Johann Adam Lützenberger & Anna Margaretha Spiss, was baptized on 17 December 1713 in Sankt Julian, near Eisenbach. He married there on 6 September 1740 to Anna Elisabetha Wildberger, daughter of Johann Peter Wildberger & Anna Margaretha Stuber.
The baptisms of the following children born to Johann Sebastian Litzenberger & Anna Elisabetha Wildberger are recorded in the parish register of Offenbach am Glan: (1) Maria Margaretha, born 9 December 1741; (2) Anna Elisabeth, born 27 July 1747; (3) Johann Sebastian, born 22 February 1751; (4) Johann Philipp, born 30 December 1753; and (5) Johann Georg, baptized 13 February 1757.
Sebastian Litzenberger, a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and children (Anna Elisabeth, age 24; Maria Margaretha, age 22; Sebastian, age 18; Philipp, age 15; Johann Georg, age 11) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Perle (The Pearl) under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Yagodnaya Polyana on 16 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 59.
Philipp Litzenberger from Yagodnaya Polyana and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Neu-Yagodnaya-Polyana.
- 1857 Neu-Yagodnaya-Polyana Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 783.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Yp55, Yp70.
- Parish register of Offenbach am Glan (LDS Film No. 493272).
- Parish register of Sankt Julian (LDS Film No. 193974).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 188.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6268.
Brent Mai