Weidenbach*

Spelling Variations: 
Weidenbach*
Sartenbach*
Зартенбахъ*
Wartenbach*
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Karl Gottlieb Sartenbach [sic] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.

Carl Gottlob Wartenbach [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.

Karl Gottlob Sartenbach [sic], a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Magdalena are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 44. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767.

Gottlieb Weidenbach [sic] from Zürich and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Kind in Household No. Kd15.

The 1767 census records that Karl Gottlob Sartenbach [sic] came from the German region of Breslau.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources: 

- 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): Kd15.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 360..
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6635.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4050.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Karl Gottlieb Sartenbach.
Source: Brent Mai.

Volga Colonies