Lauwe was founded as a Lutheran colony on 19 August 1767 by LeRoy & Pictet. The original 169 settlers were Lutherans from Nüremberg, Baden, Darmstadt, Neu-Isenburg, the Palatinate, the Rhineland, Saxony and Brandenberg.
Lauwe was one of the villages that was looted during the 1774 uprising by Pugachev.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
58
|
169
|
|
|
| 1769 |
41
|
152
|
76
|
76
|
| 1773 |
47
|
179
|
90
|
89
|
| 1788 |
|
165
|
|
|
| 1798 |
|
244
|
|
|
| 1816 |
|
540
|
|
|
| 1834 |
69
|
600
|
|
|
| 1850 |
103
|
927
|
|
|
| 1857 |
116
|
|
|
|
| 1859 |
|
1,103
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
1,548
|
|
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,695*
|
845
|
850
|
| 1904 |
|
2,412
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
2,588
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
2,680
|
|
|
| 1920 |
256**
|
1,968
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,730
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
293
|
1,639
|
770
|
869
|
| 1931 |
|
1,850****
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,654 were German.
**Of which 255 households were German.
***Of whom 1,607 were German (286 households: 755 male & 852 female).
****Of whom 1,818 were German.
Lutheran
Beratz, Gottieb. The German colonies on the Lower Volga, their origin and early development: a memorial for the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first German settlers on the Volga, 29 June 1764 . Translated by Adam Giesinger (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1991): 351.
Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon . Moscow, 2006.
Orlov, Gregorii. Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II , 14 February 1769.
Pallas, P.S. Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. Theil 3,2, Reise aus Sibirien zurueck an die Wolga im 1773sten Jahr (St. Petersburg: Kaiserl. Academie der Wissenschaften, 1776): 609.
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): 18.
Descendants of Goeringer (George Overly)
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