Unterdorf was founded in 1852/1853 by colonists resettling from Dönhof, Grimm, Stephan, Franzosen, Norka, and Jost.
Additional families from Dönhof and Shcherbakovka resettled to Unterdorf in 1867.
Today, what remains of the former Volga German colony of Unterdorf is known as Veselovo.
There was a Lutheran church in Unterdorf. The congregation in Unterdorf belonged to the parish in Rosenberg where there was a resident pastor.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1857 |
|
|
|
|
| 1859 |
40
|
457
|
251
|
206
|
| 1886 |
95
|
726
|
367
|
359
|
| 1890 |
97
|
995
|
492
|
503
|
| 1894 |
99
|
523
|
226
|
297
|
| 1897 |
|
849*
|
414
|
435
|
| 1904 |
|
837
|
|
|
| 1911 |
|
956
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
1,574
|
|
|
| 1920 |
156**
|
1,083
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,135
|
|
|
| 1926 |
188
|
1,047
|
485
|
562
|
| 1931 |
|
1,789
|
|
|
*Of which 154 households were German.
**Of whom 840 were German.
Unterdorf (wolgadeutsche.net) [in Russian]
Unterdorf: A Volga German Village (Larry Miller)
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Dietz, Jacob E. History of the Volga German Colonists (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2005): 215.
- Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 311.
- Minkh, A.N. Historical-Geographical Dictionary of the Saratov Province (Saratov, 1898-1903): 1060-1062.
- 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): 19.
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Map showing Unterdorf (1935).
Satellite view of Unterdorf.
Source: Vladimir Kakorin.
A house in Unterdorf.
Source: Maria Flegler Laufler.
A house in Unterdorf.
Source: Maria Flegler Laufler.
A house in Unterdorf.
Source: Maria Flegler Laufler.
A house in Unterdorf.
Source: Maria Flegler Laufler.
A house in Unterdorf.
Source: Maria Flegler Laufler.
Ruins of the church in Unterdorf.
Source: Vladimir Kakorin.