There are three Brotzmann families that arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg. They all settled in the Volga German colony of Huck on 1 July 1767.
(1) Christoph Brotzmann, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Anna, age 18; Christian, age 16) arrived in Oranienbaum.
His family is recorded on the 1767 census of Huck in Household No. 16.
(2) Jakob Brotzmann, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and sons (Johann, age 7; Konrad, age 3) arrived in Oranienbaum.
His family is recorded on the 1767 census of Huck in Household No. 17.
(3) Peter Brotzmann, a single farmer, arrived in Oranienbaum.
His family is recorded on the 1767 census of Huck in Household No. 77.
Research documents that the Brotzmann family in the German village of Wächtersbach immigrated to Russia, settling in the colony of Huck.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 402-403.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Hk24, Hk34, Hk60, Hk70, Hk75.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 143, 144, 159.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3108, #3109, #3110.
Brent Mai