Nikolaus Freudenberger [sic], a single physician (Friseur), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pink named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Köhler on 21 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 5 along with his new wife Elisabeth Walter.
The death of Nikolaus Freiberger on 23 August 1803 recorded in the parish register of Köhler.
Peter Freiberger and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Köhler in Household No. 172 along with a note that they relocated to the daughter colony of Josefstal in 1852.
Peter Freiberger and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Köhler in Household No. 77.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Freudenberger [sic] came from the German region of Trier. The 1767 census records that Johann Nikolaus Freiberger came from the German village of Montabaur in the Trier region.
- 1857 Josefstal Census (Household No. 77).
- 1857 Köhler Census (Household No. 172).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 493.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Kl27.
- Parish register of Köhler.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 360.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3866.
Brent Mai