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 alloted 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 colonists in Rosental were Lutheran. The parish in Rosental shared a pastor with the congregations in nearby Schöndorf and Hoffental.
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Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 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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Map showing Rosental (1935).