Neu-Norka was officially founded in 1852 along the Ilovlya River although there had been colonists living there as early as 1847. All of the original settlers were from the colony of Norka.
In 1877, 2 families left for America, and in 1886 an additional 5 families were issued passports to emigrate.
Today, nothing remains of the former colony of Neu-Norka.
The Lutheran congregation in Neu-Norka belonged to the parish of Rosenberg. A prayerhouse (Bethaus) was built there in 1890.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1850 |
|
|
|
|
| 1857 |
87
|
538
|
279
|
259
|
| 1859 |
65
|
564
|
289
|
275
|
| 1886 |
107
|
828
|
416
|
412
|
| 1890 |
|
1,181
|
590
|
591
|
| 1894 |
|
1,359
|
662
|
697
|
| 1897 |
|
1,115*
|
539
|
576
|
| 1904 |
|
995
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
|
|
|
| 1911 |
|
1,304
|
|
|
| 1920 |
179
|
1,218
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,032
|
|
|
| 1926 |
219
|
1,214
|
565
|
649
|
| 1931 |
|
1,339
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,087 are ethnically German.
Neu-Norka (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
- 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): 311.
- Mink, A.N. Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Saratov Province [in Russian] (Saratov, Russia, 1898): 691-694. (Online)
- 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): 18.
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Migrated From
Immigration Locations
Map showing Neu-Norka (1935).
School & Prayerhouse in Neu-Norka built in 1890.
Source: Volksfreund Kalender, 1911.
Neu-Norka School & Prayerhouse taken in 1957 - top floor had been removed.
Source: Alexander Baumung.
(original post to wolgadeutsche.net)