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Luzern was founded on 20 June 1767 as a Roman Catholic colony by Baron Caneau de Beauregard.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
|
|
|
|
| 1769 |
44
|
140
|
76
|
64
|
| 1773 |
44
|
188
|
90
|
98
|
| 1788 |
42
|
217
|
113
|
104
|
| 1798 |
44
|
275
|
133
|
142
|
| 1816 |
65
|
484
|
267
|
217
|
| 1834 |
104
|
920
|
466
|
464
|
| 1850 |
154
|
1,515
|
768
|
747
|
| 1857 |
170
|
1,687
|
875
|
812
|
| 1859 |
|
1,507
|
|
|
| 1883 |
|
2,310
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
2,365
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
2,875*
|
1,511
|
1,364
|
| 1905 |
|
3,697
|
|
|
| 1910 |
523
|
3,575
|
1,791
|
1,784
|
| 1912 |
|
3,860
|
|
|
| 1920 |
663
|
3,556
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
3,023
|
|
|
| 1926** |
594
|
2,823
|
1,353
|
1,470
|
| 1931 |
|
3,438***
|
|
|
*Of whom 2,865 were German.
**Of whom 2,818 (1,350 male & 1,468 female) were German living in 592 households.
***Of whom 3,435 were German.
Catholic
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): 352.
Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
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): 613.
Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II by Count Orlov, 14 February 1769.
"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.
Remmler (Wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian