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Hildmann

Names
Hildmann
Panovka
Panowka
Гильдман
Пановка
Daughter Colonies
History

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.

Church

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.

Pastors & Priests

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)
Population
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.

Sources

- 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): 350.
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- 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.
- 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 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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Images

Map showing Hildmann (1935).