Lang (Rosenheim)*
Nikolaus Lang and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Kronshlot under the command of Skipper Ivan Kunakovskii. [The name has been erroneously translated as Lamm by some sources.]
The Lang family settled in the Volga German colony of Rosenheim on 27 July 1767 where they are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 5.
Georg Lang and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Zug in Household No. Rm22.
The death of Georg Lang in 1830 is recorded on the 1834 census of Zug in Household No. 24.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Lang was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a carpenter (Tischler).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Lang came from the German region of Dienheim while the 1767 census records that he came from the the German village of Dunningen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Lang family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1834 Zug Census (Household No. 24).
- 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): Rm22.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 62.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3031.
Brent Mai