In 1860, Strassburg was founded along the left bank of the Torgun River. The original resettlers came from the colonies of Galka, Shcherbakovka, Kraft, Schwab, Holstein, Dobrinka, and Balzer.
Following the deportation of the Volga Germans in 1941, the settlement was known by its Russian name of Romashki which means daisies.
Volga German Families
Balzer from Stephan
Bauer from Balzer
Blehm from Dobrinka
Breyer from Dobrinka
Briegemann from Dobrinka
Busch from Holstein
Deisner from Dobrinka
Dieterle from Dobrinka
Engel from Galka
Ephraim from Dobrinka
Geiss from Dobrinka
Gerlach from Dobrinka
Graff from Dobrinka
Günther from Dobrinka
Heidelbach from Dobrinka
Heinze from Dobrinka
Helwer from Schwab
Herdt from Dobrinka
Kerbs from Galka
Klauser from Dobrinka
Krispins from Dobrinka
Lattner from Galka
Meier from Dobrinka
Meier from Schwab
Metzler from Dobrinka
Müller from Dobrinka
Opfer from Dobrinka
Rau from Dobrinka
Repp from Dobrinka
Sauerwein from Dobrinka
Schäfer from Dobrinka
Schäfer from Shcherbakovka
Schlotthauer from Dobrinka
Schmidt from Galka
Schmunk from Dobrinka
Schreiner from Kraft
Schuber from Dobrinka
Seifert from Dobrinka
Stürtz from Galka
Vogel from Dobrinka
Völker from Schwab
Wassenmüller from Shcherbakovka
Weber from Dobrinka
The congregation in Strassburg was part of the Lutheran parish headquartered in Alt-Weimar where the pastor resided. There were also some Baptists in the colony.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1859 |
|
335
|
|
|
| 1883 |
|
1,057
|
|
|
| 1888 |
201
|
1,483
|
727
|
756
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,695*
|
840
|
855
|
| 1904 |
|
2,360
|
|
|
| 1908 |
225
|
2,835
|
1,439
|
1,396
|
| 1910 |
328
|
2,597
|
1,305
|
1,292
|
| 1912 |
|
2,500
|
|
|
| 1920 |
510**
|
3,522
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
2,835
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
483
|
2,640
|
1,279
|
1,361
|
| 1931 |
|
3,092****
|
|
|
| 2003 |
|
1,300
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,686 were German.
**Of which 501 were German.
***Of whom 2,620 (1,265 male & 1,355 female) were German living in 468 households.
****Of whom 3,073 were German.
- Strassburg (wolgadeutsche.net) [in Russian]
- Strassburg (Jersulan Nachrichten)
- 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): 18.
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Map showing Strassburg (1935).
Panorama of Strassburg
Source: Volk auf dem Weg (August/September 2009).