Wittenbeck

There are 3 Wittenbeck families that settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. Their relationship to each other, if any, is not recorded.

(1) Johann Wittenbeck (age 49), a mason (Maurer), is wife Elisabeth Götsch, and children ([a] Johann, age 20; [b] Christian, age 15; [c] Andreas, age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 39.

[a] Johann Wittenbeck, his wife Johanna née Spaar, and daughter Maria Elisabeth (age 1) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 43 along with his mother (widow Elisabeth née Götsch, age 55). A note records that the widow Elisabeth Wittenbeck née Götsch died 28 September 1776.

[b] Christian Wittenbeck (age 21) and his wife Elisabeth née Meger (age 20) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 43. [Another Christian Wittenbeck, his wife Maria née von Thelausa, and daughter Anna (born 1 November 1778) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register in Household No. 216.]

Christian Wittenbeck and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka057.

Karl Friedrich Wittenbeck, son of Christian Wittenbeck, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 221.

Johann Jakob Wittenbeck, son of Karl Friedrich Wittenbeck, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 316.

Johann Jakob Wittenbeck and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 450 along with a note that they moved to Rosental in 1856. The death in 1857 of Johann Jakob Wittenbeck is recorded on the 1857 census of Rosental in Household No. 45 along with a note that they had arrived in Rosental from Katharinenstadt on 30 October 1856.

[c] Andreas Wittenbeck (age 17) is recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 43.

In 1782, Andreas Wittenbeck left Katharinenstadt.

(2) Johann Wettenbeck [sic] & Sophia Christine Schreiber were married on 23 September 1765 in Roßlau.

Johannes Wittenbeck (age 24), a tailor (Schneider), his wife Sophia Schreiber, and son Andeas (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 40.

Johann Wittenbeck junior (age 29), a tailor (Schneider), his wife Sophia née Schreiber (age 31), and children (Andreas, age 9; Wilhelmina, age 4) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 91.

(3) Widower Heinrich Wittenbeck (age 22) [occupation not recorded], is recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 176.

The death of Johann Heinrich Wiedenbeck in 1833 is recorded on the 1834 census of Biberstein in Household No. 109.

In 1848, Heinrich Wiedenbeck and his family along with Karl Friedrich Wiedenbeck and his family moved to the daughter colony of Rosental. The 1857 census of Rosental records in Household No. 3 that Karl Wiedenbeck arrived from Katharinenstadt on 31 December 1856.

The 1767 census records that all three of these families came from the German village of Eckersdorf in the Bayreuth region. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] records that Johann Wittenbeck and his brothers came from the German village of Eckertdorf [sic] in the German region of Bayreuth and that their mother was from the village of Bruswiytz [?] in the region of Bayreuth.