1954 Location:
800 Sherman
Fort Morgan, Colorado
Current Location:
1215 W. Seventh Street
Fort Morgan, CO 80701
Phone: 970.867.5721
History:
Trinity Lutheran Church was founded in 1906 in Fort Morgan, Colorado.
Many Volga German families attend Trinity Lutheran.
A new church building was constructed in 1954.
In 2022, the congregation dedicated a new building on the west edge of Fort Morgan.
Johann Nikolaus Hirsch, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Teresia, age 3¼; Johann, age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.
Johann Nicolaus Hirsch, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Theresia, age 5; Johann, age 1) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Anna Maria and son Johann died in route.
Volga German families settled in and around Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Eltmann is a village located in the historical region of Lower Franconia.
Christoph Long, a farmer, and his wife Kunigunda are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 97. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Christoph Long came from the German village of Eltmann.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Long family among the Volga German colonies.
Joseph Regner, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Joseph Regner and his wife Margaretha are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.
Joseph Reger [sic], a miller (Müller), and his wife Margaretha are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 95. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767.
Johann Chor, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Johann Chor, his wife Anna Maria, and son Johann (born in route) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov along with a note that newborn Johann also died in route.
Georg Fau, a mason, and his wife Walpurgia arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Georg Fau and his wife Margaretha [sic] are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.
Today, Salzburg is administratively part of the municipality of Rennerod.
Johann Meier, a farmer, his wife Kunigunda, and daughter Anna (age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Johann Meyer [sic], his wife Anna Cunigunda, and daughter Anna (age 4) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.
Johannes Meier, a carpenter (Zimmermann), and his wife Kunigunda are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 85.