Spelling Variations
Zwinger (Mariental)
Цвингеръ (Mariental)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Johannes Zwinger, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Mariental on 14 June 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 33.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Zwinger came from the German village of Bitsch in the region of Lothringen.
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): Mt57.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 134.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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