In 1849, Rosental was founded along the Yeruslan River about 25 kilometers northeast of Krasny Kut by colonists resettling from Katharinenstadt, Orlovskaya, Boisroux, Philippsfeld, Kaneau, Paulskaya, and Beauregard.
The colony was allotted 4,470 desyatina of land.
In 1915, as part of a regional Russification effort, the colony was renamed to Rozovka. During the period of the ASSR-VG, it was again called Rosental. Following the deportation of the Volga Germans in 1941, the name retuned to Rozovka on 2 July 1942.
Today, what remains of the former colony of Rosental is still called Rozovka.
The original colonists in Rosental were Lutheran and Reformed. The parish in Rosental shared a pastor with the congregations in nearby Schöndorf when it was founded, and after 1905 with Hoffental.
There was a Bethaus (combination church and school) in the colony. In 1860, the Lutheran church in the colony of Paulskaya (which had been built in 1801) was purchased, dismantled, and transported to Rosental where it was reconstructed on a new stone foundation.
The congregation in Rosental was still active in 1931, but by 1938 all parishes in the Volga region had been closed.
Immigrated to the following locations
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Year
|
Households
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Population
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Total
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Male
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Female
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1850 |
|
179
|
|
|
|
1857 |
113
|
|
|
|
|
1859 |
|
409
|
|
|
|
1886 |
|
|
|
|
|
1889 |
|
1,279
|
|
|
|
1894 |
|
|
|
|
|
1897 |
|
1,612*
|
||
|
1905 |
|
2,422
|
|
|
|
1910 |
|
2,723
|
|
|
|
1920 |
|
2,323
|
|
|
|
1922 |
|
1,579
|
|
|
|
1923 |
|
1,612
|
|
|
|
1926 |
|
1,791**
|
|
|
|
1931 |
|
2,434***
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,605 were German.
**Of whom 1,786 were German.
***Of whom 2,430 were German.
- Rosental (wolgadeutsche.net) [in Russian]
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 313.
- Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 17.
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Migrated From
Immigration Locations
Map showing Rosental (1935).