Franz Reisenberg arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
Frantz Reisenberg is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Franz Reisenberg, a tobacco worker (Tabakarbeiter), and his wife Barbara are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 21 along with his stepdaughter Margaretha Benedikt (age 12).
A note accompanying the entry for Margaretha Benedikt records that she settled in the colony of Zürich in 1768, and it is presumed that this is where the Reisenbergs settled also.
The 1767 census records that Franz Reisenberg came from the German region of Bonn.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Reisenberg family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 834.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6690 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 267.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3803.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Franz Reisenberg.
Source: Brent Mai.