Schöndorf was founded in 1855 35 kilometers northeast of Krasny-Kut. The founding colonists came from Pobochnaya. It was located on the left back of the Yeruslan River.
Since the founding of the colony, there was a parochial school in the colony. A government "Central School" was built in Schöndorf in 1871. A mill was completed in 1919.
During the 1921 famine, 214 people died in Schöndorf.
Today, what remains of the former Volga German settlement of Schöndorf is now part of Repnoye.
The colonists living in Schöndorf were Lutheran. Some who lived there were also of the Reformed faith. There was a Lutheran parish there since 1864.
There was a Lutheran church in the colony and a prayer house (Bethaus) for those of the Reformed faith.
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Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Total
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Male
|
Female
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| 1850 |
|
|
|
|
| 1857 |
|
|
|
|
| 1859 |
|
434
|
|
|
| 1883 |
|
890
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
1,012
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,350*
|
654
|
696
|
| 1905 |
|
1,753
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
1,938
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
2,000
|
|
|
| 1920 |
237
|
1,647
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,990
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
1,708
|
|
|
| 1926** |
197
|
1,031
|
468
|
563
|
| 1931 |
|
1,256***
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,332 were German.
**Of whom 1,030 were German (196 households: 468 male & 562 female).
***Of whom 1,240 were German.
- Schöndorf (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.
- 1857 Schöndorf Census.
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Map showing Schöndorf (1935).