Eckheim

Alternate Names
Eckeim,
Eckheim,
Skatovka,
Skatowka
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Church

Eckheim was established as an independent parish in 1865.

Type of Settlement
History

Eckheim was founded in 1855 by Lutheran colonists resettling from Holstein , Müller , Galka , Kraft , Schwab , Dobrinka , Grimm , and Shcherbakovka . It is located 560 versts from Samara and 112 versts from Saratov.  It is 13 miles to Friedenfeld , the nearest railroad station.  Its name was changed to Skatovka in 1915.

Population
Population Table
Year
Households
Population
Total
Male
Female
1857
 
 
406
 
1859
 
 
 
 
1886
 
 
 
 
1891
 
 
 
 
1894
 
 
 
 
1897
 
1,339*
681
658
1904
 
 
 
 
1910
238
2,321
1,195
1,126
1912
 
2,200
 
 
1920
286**
1,831
 
 
1926***
292
1,565
751
814

*Of whom 1,328 were German.
**Of which 283 households were German.
***Of those, 288 households (1,555 individuals: 746 male & 809 female) were German.

Priests or pastors
Sources

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Dietz, Jacob E. History of the Volga German Colonists (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2005): 218.

Klaus, A.A. Our Colonies (Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1869): 16.

Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 312.
 

List of the Populated Places of the Samara Province (Samara, Russia, 1910): 350.

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

Preliminary Totals of the All-Union Population Census of 1926 of the ASSR of the Germans of Volga Region (Pokrovsk, Russia, 1927): 28-83.

Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen – Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 197.

"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 18.

Surnames with Confirmed Pre-Volga Origins