Peter Kuntzenbach, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.
Peter Kuntzenbach is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Peter Kintzenbach [sic], a stocking weaver (Strumpfwirker), and his [new] wife Elisabeth are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 27 along with a note that they settled in the colony of Biberstein in 1768.
In 1777, Peter Hussenbach [Kuntzenbach] and his family left Biberstein. Where they went is not known at this time.
The Oranienbaum passenger list does not record from where Peter Kuntzenbach came. The 1767 census records that Peter Kintzenbach [sic] came from the German village of Schwelm in the Westfalen region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kuntzenbach family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 848.
- 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): Mv0252.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6869 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 1999): 200.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4233.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Peter Kuntzenbach.
Source: Brent Mai.