Franzosen was founded on 28 July 1765 as a Roman Catholic French colony by DeBoffe.
This colony really has two histories. The first was as a Roman Catholic colony; the second as a Lutheran colony. Between 1816 and 1834 most of the Catholic families moved to other colonies and colonists from Protestant colonies settled there.
Today, what remains of the colony of Franzosen is known as Rossosha.
The original colonists who settled in Franzosen were Roman Catholic. By 1834, however, most of them had moved to neighboring Catholic colonies, and Lutheran colonists had replaced them.
Immigrated to the following locations
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
|
1767 |
68
|
160
|
86
|
74
|
|
1769 |
58
|
169
|
98
|
71
|
|
1773 |
46
|
150
|
79
|
71
|
|
1788 |
26
|
143
|
81
|
62
|
|
1798 |
47
|
254
|
139
|
115
|
|
1816 |
79
|
436
|
235
|
201
|
|
1834 |
114
|
776
|
405
|
371
|
|
1850 |
136
|
1,248
|
641
|
607
|
|
1857 |
146
|
1,435
|
728
|
707
|
|
1859 |
125
|
1,460
|
735
|
725
|
|
1886 |
208
|
1,765
|
915
|
850
|
|
1891 |
194
|
2,231
|
1,145
|
1,086
|
|
1894 |
201
|
2,232
|
1,151
|
1,081
|
|
1897 |
|
1,641*
|
833
|
808
|
|
1904 |
|
2,768
|
|
|
|
1910 |
|
2,750
|
|
|
|
1912 |
|
3,055
|
|
|
|
1920 |
353
|
2,585
|
|
|
|
1922 |
|
1,845
|
|
|
|
1923 |
|
1,695
|
|
|
|
1926** |
348
|
1,928
|
889
|
1,039
|
|
1931 |
|
2,162
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,631 were German.
**Of whom 1,919 were German (344 households: 883 male & 1,036 female).
Franzosen (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
- Beratz, Gottieb. The German colonies on the Lower Volga, their origin and early development: a memorial for the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first German settlers on the Volga, 29 June 1764. Translated by Adam Giesinger (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1991): 349.
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- List of Settlements in the Russian Empire in 1859, vol. 38: Saratov Province (St. Petersburg, 1862): 59.
- Mink, A.N. Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Saratov Province [in Russian] (Saratov, Russia, 1898): 838-841.
- 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): 623.Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 441-455.
- 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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Migrated From
Immigration Locations
Map showing Franzosen (1935).