Philippsfeld was founded on 3 August 1767 by Baron Caneau de Beauregard as a Lutheran colony.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
46
|
140
|
|
|
| 1769 |
41
|
144
|
78
|
66
|
| 1773 |
45
|
140
|
79
|
61
|
| 1788 |
18
|
110
|
56
|
54
|
| 1798 |
19
|
118
|
63
|
55
|
| 1816 |
31
|
226
|
115
|
111
|
| 1834 |
55
|
411
|
210
|
201
|
| 1850 |
82
|
622
|
309
|
313
|
| 1857 |
70
|
698
|
354
|
344
|
| 1859 |
68
|
702
|
352
|
350
|
| 1889 |
|
1,041
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,174*
|
607
|
567
|
| 1904 |
|
1,743
|
|
|
| 1910 |
145
|
1,748
|
902
|
846
|
| 1912 |
|
1,929
|
|
|
| 1920 |
176
|
1,248
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
731
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
835
|
|
|
| 1926** |
183
|
997
|
480
|
517
|
| 1931 |
|
1,242
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,158 were German.
**Of whom 996 (479 male & 517 female) were German living in 182 households.
Lutheran
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Klaus, A.A. Our Colonies (Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1869): 2:13; 4:54-55.
Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 t
Philippsfeld (Wolgadeusche.net) - in Russian