Neu-Weimar

Alternate Names
Neu-Weimar,
Novaya Ivantsovka
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Church

The congregation in Neu-Weimar belonged to the parish headquartered in nearby Alt-Weimar.

Type of Settlement
History

Neu-Weimar was founded in 1861 as a Lutheran colony. It is 220 miles southeast of Saratov.  The colonists who relocated to Neu-Weimar came from Galka, Stephan, Schwab and Dobrinka.

Population
Population Table
Year
Households
Population
Total
Male
Female
1888
1,094
215
586
526
1891
 
 
 
 
1894
 
 
 
 
1897
 
1,332*
673
659
1908
237
2,246
1,144
1,102
1910
257
2,366
1,191
1,175
1912
 
2,300
 
 
1920
344**
2,281
 
 
1922
 
1,834
 
 
1926***
383
2,198
1,067
1,131

*Of whom 1,327 were German.
**Of which 342 were German households.
***Of whom 2,158 (1,046 male & 1,112 female) were German living in 373 households.

Priests or pastors
Religion

Lutheran

Sources

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

Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 313.

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

Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen – Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 198.

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