Rosenfeld (am Jeruslan)

Alternate Names
Norka,
Norki,
Rosenfeld,
Rosenfeld am Jeruslan,
Rosenfeldt
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Church

The original settlers of Rosenfeld were Reformed.

Type of Settlement
History

Rosenfeld was founded in 1859 along the Jeruslan River by colonists from Huck, Norka and Moor.  It is located across the Jeruslan River from Krasny-Kut to the south and today is part of the Krasny-Kut metropolitan area.

Population
Population Table
Year
Households
Population
Total
Male
Female
1859
 
 
 
 
1886
 
 
 
 
1891
 
 
 
 
1894
 
 
 
 
1897
 
773
390
383
1904
 
 
 
 
1910
173
1,234
648
586
1912
 
1,100
 
 
1920
212*
1,248
 
 
1922
 
667
 
 
1926**
205
911
432
479
1931
 
1,057***
 
 

*Of which 211 households were German.
**Of whom 203 households were German - total: 899 (427 male, 472 female).
***Of whom 1,032 were German.

Religion

Reformed Lutheran

Sources

Herman, A. A. German Autonomy on the Volga, 1918-1941 (Saratov: Saratov University, 1994): 385.

Klaus, A. Our Colony [in Russian] (St. Petersburg, 1869): 2:16.

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

List of Populated Areas of the Samara Province [in Russian] (Samara, 1910): 350.

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

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