Wendel Künstler, a single miller (Müller), arrived in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 197.
Wendel Künstler (age 35), a single tailor (Schneider), is recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 185.
The 1798 census of Schäfer records Johann Wendel Künstler from Katharinenstadt in Household No. Sf18.
The 1767 census records that Wendel Künstler came from the German village of Wiesbaden in the Hessen region. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Wendel Künstler came from the German village of Wiesbaden in the region of Nassau-Usingen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Künstler family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 185).
- 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): Sf18.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 316.
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