According to Klaus, the daughter colony of Liebental was founded on the Wiesenseite in 1859 on the right bank of the Malankaya Vetelka River where it joins with the Nakhoi River.
In the 1860s, inhabitants from the abolished colony of Friedental were resettled to Liebental.
A parochial school was established in Liebental when the colony was founded. A school building was constructed in 1860, and it served as the parochial school until it was taken over when a Zemstvo School (regional government school) was opened in Liebental on 16 November 1899.
A group of immigrants headed from Liebental to North America departed in the fall of 1875, sailing aboard the SS Ohio and settling in Kansas. This group is reported to include the following:
Jacob Beil
Peter Beil
Joseph Braun
Martin Götz
Jacob Herrman
John Herrman
Peter Herrman
Adam Kreutzer
John Kreutzer
John Lechleiter
Michael Lechleiter
John Schäffer
John Peter Schäffer
Peter Schäffer
Joseph Schönberger
Franz Weber
Today, what remains of the former Volga German settlement of Liebental is known by the name Pionerskoye.
The original settlers of Liebental were Roman Catholic. The parish was first connected with Louis, then Mariental. It became an independent parish in 1861.
The first church building was constructed in Liebental in 1872 in the Kontor Style. It was replaced by a new building in 1899 which was consecrated in honor of John the Baptist. The parish was officially closed on 21 October 1934. Today, nothing remains of this structure.
The congregation in Liebental was served by the following priests:
Mattias Walulis (1898-1903)
Johannes Zimmermann (1910-1913)
Immigrated to the following locations
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
|
1857 |
|
|
501
|
|
|
1888 |
251
|
1,077
|
544
|
533
|
|
1891 |
|
|
|
|
|
1894 |
|
|
|
|
|
1897 |
|
1,215*
|
586
|
629
|
|
1908 |
|
1,740
|
866
|
874
|
|
1910 |
223
|
1,379
|
622
|
757
|
|
1912 |
|
1,100
|
|
|
|
1920 |
133**
|
733
|
|
|
|
1922 |
|
306
|
|
|
|
1926 |
113
|
567
|
291
|
276
|
*Of whom 1,203 were German.
**Of which 131 households were German.
- Liebental (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
- Liebental (Lubonironvka), Russia (Kevin Rupp)
- Dechant, Emerald. Die Liebenthaler und Ihre Kirche. Hays, KS: News Pub. Co., 1976?.
- 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.
- 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): 16.
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Migrated From
Immigration Locations
Map showing Liebental (1935).
Zemstvo School in Liebental, built in 1913. (1910s)
Source: Saratov Regional Museum of Local History via wolgadeutsche.net