Friedenberg was founded in 1860 on the right bank of the Yeruslan River by colonists resettling from Franzosen, Galka, Kraft, Stephan, Schwab, and Anton.
Following the deportation of the Volga Germans in 1941, the settlement was renamed Mirnoye ("peaceful"). Today, what remains of the former Volga German colony of Friedenberg is still called Mirnoye.
The Lutheran congregation in Friedenberg was part of the parish located at Gnadentau where the pastor resided.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1883 |
|
1,077
|
|
|
| 1888 |
200
|
1,149
|
585
|
564
|
| 1897 |
|
1,240
|
626
|
614
|
| 1904 |
|
1,802
|
|
|
| 1910 |
210
|
2,209
|
1,095
|
1,114
|
| 1912 |
|
3,000
|
|
|
| 1920 |
323
|
1,988
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,185
|
|
|
| 1926* |
240
|
1,351
|
637
|
714
|
| 1931 |
|
1,657**
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,346 (632 male & 714 female) were German living in 236 households.
**Of whom 1,635 were German.
Friedenberg (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
Friedenberg (Jeruslan Nachrichten)
- 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): 312.
- List of Populated Areas of the Samara Province [in Russian] (Samara, 1910): 350.
- 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 Friedenberg (1935).