Johann Stürz, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
Johannes Stürtz is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Kraft on 18 August 1766 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 62 along with his new wife Anna Margaretha.
In 1796, Johannes Stürz moved from Kraft to Galka.
Johannes Stürtz from Kraft and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Galka in Household No. Gk18.
Johannes Stürtz and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Galka in Household No. 140.
The death of Johannes Stürtz in 1845 is recorded on the 1850 census of Galka in Household No. 176.
The death of Balthasar Stürtz, son of Johannes Stürtz, is recorded in 1842 on the 1850 census of Galka in Household No. 176.
The children of Balthasar Stürtz (Andreas, Heinrich, Eva Katharina, Susanna Katharina, & Anna Katharina) are recorded on the 1857 census of Galka in Household No. 177.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Stürtz came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Johann Stürz came from the German village of Romrode [sic] in the Darmstadt region.
- 1834 Galka Census (Household No. 140).
- 1850 Galka Census (Household No. 176).
- 1857 Galka Census (Household No. 177).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 641.
- 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): Gk18, Kf47, Mv1380.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 409.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5138.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1938.
Brent Mai