Marienberg

Alternate Names
Besuk,
Beziok,
Bisiuk,
Bizyuk,
Krestovskiy,
Marienberg,
Peschanoye,
Peschanoe
Church

Marienberg was a Roman Catholic daughter colony. It belonged to the parish headquartered in Streckerau until 1903 when it became an independent parish with a resident priest. The church was built in Marienberg in 1877.

In addition to the list below, it is known that Jakob Kayser also served as a priest in this colony.

Type of Settlement
History

Marienberg was a Roman Catholic daughter colony founded in 1855 by colonists from Rothammel, SewaldHusaren, Semenovka, Schuck, Kamenka, and Degott . It was located 505 versts from Samara and 3 versts from Streckerau . It was 42 versts to the nearest railway stop in Krasnyi Kut.

Immigration began in 1876 and from 1876-1878, 79 colonists left for America.

list of 19 families that departed from Marienberg on 2 August 1921 was provided by Bernard J. Siegel.

 

Population
Population Table
Year
Households
Population
Total
Male
Female
1857
 
 
 
 
1859
52
403
198
205
1883
 
1,623
 
 
1889
 
1,908
 
 
1891
 
 
 
 
1894
 
 
 
 
1897
 
2,385*
1,157
1,228
1905
 
3,187
 
 
1910
469
3,229
1,636
1,593
1912
 
3,310
 
 
1920
487
2,659
 
 
1922
 
1,340
 
 
1923
 
1,500
 
 
1926**
392
1,891
914
977
1931
 
2,084***
 
 

*Of whom 2,332 were German.
**Of whom 1,882 (906 male & 976 female) were German living in 387 households.
***Of whom 2,059 were German.

Religion

Catholic

Sources

Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon . Moscow, 2006.

Dietz, Jacob E. History of the Volga German Colonists (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2005): 241.

Klaus, A. Our Colony [in Russian] (St. Petersburg, 1869).
 

Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.

"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 17.