Weizenfeld is a daughter colony founded in 1849 along the Nackoi River on the Wiesenseite.
Today, the former colony of Weizenfeld is known as Pshenichnoye, which means "wheat" in Russian.
Weizenfeld was a Lutheran colony, and in 1862 an independent Lutheran parish was established there with a resident pastor.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1850 |
49
|
362
|
191
|
171
|
| 1857 |
50
|
477
|
245
|
232
|
| 1859 |
50
|
497
|
255
|
242
|
| 1883 |
|
780
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
846
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
918*
|
435
|
483
|
| 1905 |
|
1,257
|
|
|
| 1910 |
148
|
1,632
|
804
|
828
|
| 1912 |
|
1,500
|
|
|
| 1920 |
180
|
1,219
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
829
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
970
|
|
|
| 1926** |
185
|
969
|
467
|
502
|
| 1931 |
|
1,511***
|
|
|
*Of whom 907 were German.
**Of whom 967 (466 male & 502 female) were German living in 184 households.
***Of whom 1,467 were German.
Müller aus Weizenfeld Spanish (Alejandro G. Müller)
Weizenfeld (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
- Amburger, Erik. Die Pastoren der evangelischen Kirchen Rußlands (Lüneburg, Germany: Institut Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk, 1998): 143.
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Herdt, Karl. Die Namengebung zweier Woldadeutscher Dörfer, Alexanderdorf und Höh (Alexander-Höh): am Nachoistrom gelegen sowie Episoden aus dem damaligen Bauernleben und Skizzen aus der Steppentierwelt (Espelkamp: K. Herdt, 1983): 16.
- 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.
- Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen – Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 349.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.
51.233333, 46.783333
Migrated From
Immigration Locations
Map showing Weizenfeld - upper left of the 3 shown (1935).
