Ernestinendorf was founded on 3 August 1767 by colonists who had been recruited by Baron Caneau de Beauregard. It was located along the banks of the Malii Karaman River (Little Karaman River).
Today, what remains of Ernestinendorf is known as Berezovka.
The original colonists of Ernestinendorf were Lutheran.
There was a Bethaus (combination church/school building) located in Ernestinendorf in the early years. In 1801, a wooden church building was constructed. In 1851, the congregation in Ernestinendorf bought the church in Katharinenstadt (that had been built in 1807), dismantled it, brought it to Ernestinendorf, and rebuilt it on a stone foundation.
The church in Ernestinendorf was officially closed in 1931. The Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Volga Germans planned to use the building as a community center, but in that same year it burned down.
From the founding of the colony until 1905, the congregation in Ernestinendorf was served by the pastors from the Northern Parish in Katharinenstadt. Beginning in 1905, it was served by the pastors who resided in Boisroux.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
46
|
142
|
73
|
69
|
| 1769 |
41
|
141
|
72
|
69
|
| 1773 |
20
|
89
|
47
|
42
|
| 1788 |
15
|
95
|
43
|
52
|
| 1798 |
32
|
107
|
32
|
55
|
| 1816 |
33
|
229
|
117
|
112
|
| 1834 |
51
|
391
|
207
|
184
|
| 1850 |
66
|
577
|
291
|
286
|
| 1857 |
65
|
730
|
356
|
374
|
| 1859 |
69
|
1,079
|
530
|
549
|
| 1888 |
139
|
1,243
|
590
|
653
|
| 1897 |
|
1,425
|
734
|
691
|
| 1904 |
|
1,676
|
|
|
| 1910 |
190
|
1,811
|
948
|
863
|
| 1912 |
|
1,869
|
|
|
| 1920 |
201*
|
1,540
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
877
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
818
|
|
|
| 1926 |
195
|
1,061
|
509
|
552
|
| 1931 |
|
1,207
|
|
|
*Of which 192 households were German.
Ernestinendorf - in Russian (wolgadeutsche.net)
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Orlov, Gregorii. Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II, 14 February 1769.
- Pallas, P.S. Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. Theil 3,2, Reise aus Sibirien zurueck an die Wolga im 1773sten Jahr (St. Petersburg: Kaiserl. Academie der Wissenschaften, 1776): 614.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 395-406.
- 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 Ernestinendorf (1935).