Wendel (Katharinenstadt)*

[a] Johann Gottfried Wendel (age 5) and his sister [b] Kunigunde (age 16) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 7 with their mother and stepfather, Johannes Andreas Schmidt.

[a] Judith Eva Maria Schmidt née Voigt (widow Wendel) (age 50) and her son Johann Gottfried Wendel (age 14) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 5 along with her husband Andreas Schmidt (age 40) and their children. [See Schmidt Family.]

[b] Kunigunda Heine née Wendel (age 22), her husband Heinrich Heine, a cooper (Böttcher), and son (Jakob, age 2½) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 2 along with notes about the births of two daughters (Maria Sophia, born 20 May 1776; Johanna Judith, born 10 January 1778). [See Heine Family.]

The 1767 census records that Johann Gottfried Wendel came from the German region of Karlsburg. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Judith Eva Maria Schmidt née Voigt came from the German village of Alsterbach in the Pfalz region and that Johann Gottfried Wendel came from the village of Karlsburg. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Kunigunda Heine née Wendel came from the German town of Ober-Schulz in the Bramberg region.

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