Anton Hölzel, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Johann Hermann Anderson.
Anton Höltzel [sic] is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Hölzel on 11 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 1 along with his new wife, Rosina. He is recorded there as the mayor (Vorsteher) of the colony and it is after him that the colony received its name.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anton Hölzel was a teacher while the 1767 census records that he was a clerk (Schreiber).
The 1767 census records that Anton Hölzel came from Vienna, Austria.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hölzel family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 109.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6631.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7439.
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