Hildmann was founded on 14 May 1767 by colonists from the German regions of Mainz and Fulda who had been recruited by agents of the Russian government and was therefore called a Crown Colony.
By government decree on 26 February 1768, it was given the official Russian name of Panovka.
A parish school was started in Hildmann in 1768.
Today, what remains of the colony of Hildmann is known as Panovka.
The congregation originally belonged to the Roman Catholic parish of Kamenka and later to the parish in Semenovka. In 1894, Hildmann became an independent parish with a resident priest of its own.
A wood church was constructed in Hildmann in 1857 and decidated to St. Wendelin.
The congregation in Hildmann was served by the following priests:
- Georg Dechant (1895-3 July 1897)
- Klemens Schönheiter (3 July 1897-1899)
- Florian Schulz (1899-1914)
- Johannes Schönberger (summer 1915-1919)
- Andreas Brungardt (1919/1920-1920/1921)
- Michael Brungardt (1921/1922-1931/1932)
Immigrated to the following locations
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
|
1767 |
45
|
134
|
64
|
70
|
|
1769 |
41
|
136
|
64
|
72
|
|
1773 |
42
|
164
|
75
|
89
|
|
1788 |
39
|
294
|
181
|
113
|
|
1798 |
41
|
278
|
143
|
135
|
|
1816 |
64
|
348
|
180
|
168
|
|
1834 |
78
|
564
|
273
|
291
|
|
1850 |
87
|
829
|
428
|
401
|
|
1857 |
84
|
930
|
473
|
457
|
|
1859 |
78
|
926
|
486
|
440
|
|
1886 |
193
|
1,469
|
731
|
738
|
|
1891 |
183
|
1,849
|
932
|
917
|
|
1894 |
183
|
1,884
|
961
|
923
|
|
1897 |
|
1,972*
|
981
|
991
|
|
1905 |
|
1,884
|
|
|
|
1911 |
|
2,409
|
|
|
|
1912 |
|
2,587
|
|
|
|
1920 |
341
|
2,290
|
|
|
|
1922 |
|
1,400
|
|
|
|
1926 |
289
|
1,493
|
716
|
777
|
|
1931 |
|
1,929
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,649 were German.
Hildmann (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
Hildmann Village Website (Darryl Boyd)
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- Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 308.
- List of Settlements in the Russian Empire in 1859, vol. 38: Saratov Province (St. Petersburg, 1862): p.59.
- Mink, A.N. Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Saratov Province [in Russian] (Saratov, Russia, 1898): 739-742.
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- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 97-108.
- 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 - Katholischer Teil (Stuttgart: Selbstverlag Joseph Schnurr, 1980): 255-256.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 18.
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Migrated From
Immigration Locations
Map showing Hildmann (1935).