Johannes Heinrich Löbsack, son of Conrad Löbsack & Catharina Becker) was born 24 March 1716 in Steinheim and baptized 27 March 1716 in the Lutheran church of Rodheim. He married on 25 November 1740 in Steinheim to Elisabetha Katharina Bipp. She had been born 11 January 1717 in Steinheim and baptized 14 January 1717 in Rodheim.
The parish register of Rodheim records the baptisms of the following children born (in Steinheim) to Johann Heinrich Löbsack & Elisabetha Katharina Bipp: (1) Johann Emanuel, born 7 October 1741, baptized 10 October 1741; (2) Elisabetha Catharina, born 11 June 1744, baptized 14 June 1744; (3) Anna Elisabetha, born 20 August 1746, baptized 21 August 1746; (4) Margretha, born 16 December 1747, baptized 18 December 1747; (5) Johann Henrich, born 1 November 1749, baptized 4 November 1749; (6) Catharina, born 5 December 1750, baptized 7 December 1750; (7) Anna Catharina Anna Margretha, born 22 August 1753, baptized 26 August 1753; (8) Henrich, born 19 October 1757, baptized 23 October 1757, died 17 October 1762; and (9) Johann Georg, baptized 22 July 1759, baptized 24 July 1759.
Johann Löbsack, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Immanuel, age 24; Anna, age 22; Heinrich, age 20) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Reders.
Johann Henrich Leusack [sic], his wife Elisabeth, and children (Emanuel, age 25; Elisabeth, age 21; Joh. Henrich, age 19) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Son Immanuel Löbsack settled in the Volga German colony of Frank and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 44.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Löbsack came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Immanuel Löbsack came from the German village of Steinheim in the Hessen-Darmstadt region.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Fk004, Fk005, Fk022, Fk051, Fk099.
- Mai, Brent Alan, trans. & ed. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga: 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): 7156-7160.
- Parish records Ober-Widdersheim with Unter-Widdersheim.
- Parish records of Rodheim an der Horloff (includes Steinheim).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 426.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2516, #6537.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8270-8274.
- Ziehl, Manfred, ed. Familienbuch des Kirchspiels Rodneim an der Horloff: mit Rabertshausen, Rodheim, und Steinheim und den zugehörigen Höfen und Mühlen Grass, Glaubzahl, Ringelshausen, Reinhäuser Hof, Weißmühle, Haubenmühle und Neumühle Buch II (Fam-Nr. 1977 bis 3888) (Hungen, Germany, 2004): 45-51.
Karl Becker
Carole M. Hayden
Edward F. Wagner
Jacob Lebsack
Maggie Hein
Brent Mai
Entry from the parish register of Rodheim recording the birth of Elisabetha Catharina Bipp on 11 January 1717 in neighboring Steinheim.
Source: Karl Becker.