Löwenbrüch

Spelling Variations: 
Löwenbrüch
Лёвенбрикъ
Settled in the Following Colonies: 
Discussion & Documentation: 

Johann Löwenbrüch, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Louis on 14 June 1766 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 23.

Johannes Löwenbrüch from Louis and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Herzog in Household No. Hr04.

Johannes Löwenbrüch and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Herzog in Households No. 4 & 31.

In 1786, Konrad Leberich [sic] and his family moved from Herzog to Graf.

Konrad Löwenbrüch from Herzog, his wife, and daughter are recorded on the 1798 census of Graf in Household No. Gf37.

There are no known surviving male lines of this branch of the Löwenbrüch family in Graf.

In 1788, Johann Löwenbrüch and his family moved from Louis to Beauregard.

The widow and daughter of Johannes Löwenbrüch are recorded on the 1798 census of Beauregard in Household No. Bo04.

There are no known surviving male lines of this branch of the Löwenbrüch family in Beauregard.

The 1767 census records that Johann Löwenbrüch came from the German district of Trier.

There have been a variety of spellings used in various translations of this surname including: Leberich, Lebenbrik, and Levenbrick.

Sources: 

- 1834 Herzog Census (Households No. 4, 31).
- 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): Bo04, Gf37, Hr04, Mv0821, Mv1585.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 85.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Volga Colonies