In 1848, the daughter colony of Lilienfeld was founded by colonists resettling from the Wiesenseite colonies of Katharinenstadt, Orlovskaya, Boisroux, Ernestinendorf, Philippsfeld, Kaneau, and Paulskaya.
Emigration from Lilienfeld to America began in 1878 when 11 people left.
Today, nothing remains of the former Volga German colony of Lilienfeld.
The original settlers of Lilienfeld were Lutheran. Their congregation belonged to the parish in Fresental where the pastor lived.
The statistical summary of 1910 reports that there was a Lutheran church in the colony.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1850 |
33
|
239
|
125
|
114
|
| 1857 |
46
|
317
|
170
|
147
|
| 1859 |
81
|
1,223
|
639
|
584
|
| 1889 |
|
896
|
|
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
913
|
440
|
473
|
| 1905 |
|
1,438
|
|
|
| 1910 |
280
|
1,584
|
777
|
807
|
| 1912 |
|
1,500
|
|
|
| 1920 |
221
|
1,423
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,162
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
1,075
|
|
|
| 1926* |
207
|
1,185
|
556
|
629
|
| 1931 |
|
1,404
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,178 were German (205 households: 552 male and 626 female).
- Белополье (исчезнувшее село, Советский район) (Russian Wikipedia)
- Lilienfeld Blog in Russian
- Lilienfeld photographs
- Lilienfeld (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
- Lilienfeld (Altenhoff.org)
- 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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Map showing Lilienfeld (1935).
Map of Lilienfeld compiled by Albert Reichert (1930s).
Source: Lilienfeld Blog.