In 1846, Wiesenfeld was founded by colonists from Shcherbakovka and Oberdorf.
During the Soviet Era, Wiesenfeld was known as Collective Farm "October Revolution." Today it is called Avilovo.
The 1918-1928 Family List for Wiesenfeld records the following surnames:
1. Blehm
2. Braun
3. Burgard
4. Erhardt
5. Fritzler
6. Haberkorn
7. Hildermann
8. Lang
9. Laubhan
10. Lenenschmidt
11. Meier
12. Obländer
13. Stricker
14. Winter
15. Zwetzig
The 1929-1935 Family List for Wiesenfeld records the following surnames:
1. Blehm
2. Braun
3. Brenkmann
4. Burgard
5. Becker
6. Diser
7. Detlow
8. Erger/Jerger
9. Fritzler
10. Gerling
11. Graus
12. Haberkorn
13. Hildermann
14. Huber
15. Iwanow
16. Kolesow
17. Lenenschmidt
18. Lissmann
19. Meier
20. Müller
21. Obländer
22. Prediger
23. Rosteck
24. Stricker
25. Schulz
26. Schuldeis
27. Schichatarow
28. Tschumatschenko
29. Vogler
30. Winter
31. Zwetzig
The 1940-1941 Family List for Wiesenfeld records the following surnames:
1. Blehm
2. Braun
3. Brenkmann
4. Becker
5. Dieser
6. Erger/Jerger
7. Fritzler
8. Gerling
9. Gillig
10. Haberkorn
11. Hahn
12. Hildermann
13. Lenenschmidt
14. Lissmann
15. Macht
16. Meier
17. Müller
18. Obländer
19. Rau
20. Rosteck
21. Steinhauer
22. Stremel
23. Stricker
24. Schulz
25. Schuldeis
26. Schiebelbein
27. Uhrich
28. Vogler
29. Weber
30. Winter
31. Zwetzig
Those settling in Wiesenfeld were Lutheran.
Immigrated to the following locations
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
|
1850 |
|
|
|
|
|
1857 |
|
|
|
|
|
1859 |
|
|
|
|
|
1886 |
|
|
|
|
|
1891 |
22
|
318
|
150
|
168
|
|
1894 |
29
|
335
|
173
|
162
|
|
1897 |
|
|
|
|
|
1904 |
|
202
|
|
|
|
1911 |
|
220
|
|
|
|
1920 |
|
350
|
|
|
|
1922 |
|
310
|
|
|
|
1926 |
60
|
364
|
173
|
191
|
|
1931 |
|
412**
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,178 were German (552 male and 626 female).
**Of whom 395 were German.
Avilova (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
- 1918-1928 Wiesenfeld Family List.
- 1929-1935 Wiesenfeld Family List.
- 1940-1941 Wiesenfeld Family List.
- Herman, A. A. German Autonomy on the Volga, 1918-1941 (Saratov: Saratov University, 1994): 385.
- Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 32 & 311.
- Mink, A.N. Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Saratov Province [in Russian] (Saratov, Russia, 1898): 5-6.
- Preliminary Totals of the All-Union Population Census of 1926 for the Volga German ASSR (Pokrovsk, Russia, 1927): 28-83.
50.219, 45.070333
Migrated From
Immigration Locations
Map showing Wiesenfeld (1935).
A map of Wiesenfeld, hand-drawn by memory as of 1931.
Completed in 2013 by Viktor Alexandrovich Blehm with assistance from Eduard Victorovich Blehm and David Victorovich Blehm.Source: wolgadeutsche.net