Näb was founded on 13 July 1767 by colonists who had been recruited by Baron Caneau de Beauregard. The 1767 census does not include a list of the original colonists in Näb as they were residing in other colonies at that time.
The colony was named after Johann Konrad Näb who was probably its first major (Vorsteher).
Today, what remains of the former colony of Näb is known as Ryazanovka.
The founding colonists in Näb were Lutheran. There was a Lutheran Church in Näb. A new organ was purchased for it in 1841. A new church building was constructed in 1873.
Beginning in 1820, Näb served as the parish seat (where the pastor lived) for several neighboring colonies: Meinhard, Susannental, Kind, Brockhausen, Hockerberg, and Orlovskaya.
The parish in Näb was served by the following pastors:
- 1820-1830 David Flittner
- 1831-1861 Johann Christian Bauer
- 1863-1894 Theodor Emil Heptner
- 1895-1929 Nathanael Woldemar Heptner
- 1929-? Bernhard Heptner
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
|
|
|
|
| 1769 |
14
|
169
|
87
|
82
|
| 1773 |
36
|
148
|
75
|
73
|
| 1788 |
37
|
199
|
94
|
105
|
| 1798 |
39
|
240
|
113
|
127
|
| 1816 |
52
|
360
|
196
|
164
|
| 1834 |
89
|
746
|
376
|
370
|
| 1850 |
122
|
1,066
|
532
|
534
|
| 1857 |
129
|
1,249
|
622
|
627
|
| 1859 |
|
|
|
|
| 1886 |
|
|
|
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,834*
|
912
|
922
|
| 1904 |
|
|
|
|
| 1910 |
258
|
2,600
|
1,350
|
1,250
|
| 1912 |
|
2,748
|
|
|
| 1920 |
371**
|
2,327
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
306
|
1,618
|
770
|
848
|
*Of whom 1,833 were German.
**Of which 367 households were German.
***Of whom 1,617 (770 male & 847 female) were German living in 305 households.
- Näb (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): 351.
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Dietz, Jacob E. History of the Volga German Colonists. Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2005.
- Klaus, A.A. Our Colonies (Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1869): 2:13; 4:52-53.
- List of the Populated Places of the Samara Province (Samara, Russia, 1910): 292.
- Mittheilungen und Nachrichten fuer die evangelische Geistlichkeit Russlands: 1841, p. 295.
- 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): 613.
- Preliminary Totals of the All-Union Population Census of 1926 for the Volga German ASSR (Pokrovsk, Russia, 1927): 28-83.
- Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen – Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 196.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 17.
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Map showing Näb (1935).