Newark

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HISTORY

In 1887, about 50 families from Beideck and Schillingsettled in Newark, New Jersey, where many of them worked in factories. The neighborhood was called "Ironbound" because it was between the railroad tracks of two major rail lines that came through the area.

 

VOLGA GERMAN CONGREGATIONS

St. Stephan's German Reformed Church (now called St. Stephan's Grace Community Church, affiliated with the ELCA)

 

VOLGA GERMAN FAMILIES

The following Volga German families are known to have settled in Newark:

Burbach
Dahmer from Beideck
Fröhlich from Beideck
Froscheiser from Beideck
Fries from Beideck
Georg from Beideck
Grünemeier from Beideck
Helmut
Kress from Beideck
Miller / Müller from Beideck
Ostermüller from Beideck
Pabst
Reh from Beideck
Roemer from Beideck
Schnagelberger from Beideck
Schneider from Beideck
Schott
Schumann
Strauch
Waleske from Schilling

Sources

Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 216.

Sallet, Richard. Russian-German Settlement in the United States (Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1974): 57.