Rosendamm was a daughter colony founded in 1849 along the main railway line 26 kilometers southeast of Fyedorovka. The original re-settlers were Lutheran and came from the colony of Schaffhausen. In 1853 and 1856, additional re-settlers from Biberstein arrived in Rosendamm.
The colony's land allotment was 2,670 desyatina.
Today, the former colony of Rosendamm is known as Mortsy.
Rosendamm was a Lutheran colony that belonged to the Gnadenflur Parish.
Immigrated to the following locations
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Year
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Households
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Population
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Total
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Male
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Female
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1850 |
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77
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1857 |
79
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174
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1859 |
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1883 |
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1,000
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1889 |
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1,070
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1894 |
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1897 |
|
1,217*
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617
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600
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1904 |
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1,817
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1910 |
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2,042
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1912 |
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2,200
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1920 |
305
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2,182
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1922 |
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1,989
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1923 |
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2,048
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|
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1926** |
366
|
2,103
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1,030
|
1,073
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1931*** |
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2,103
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*Of whom 1,207 were German.
**Of whom 2,096 were German (363 households: 1,026 male & 1,070 female).
***Of whom 2,022 were German.
- Rosendamm (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): 313.
- 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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