The congregation in Stahl am Tarlyk was part of the Warenburg Lutheran Parish which had been established in 1770. A new church was constructed in 1834 in the Kontor Style.
Stahl am Tarlyk was founded on 13 August 1767 by LeRoy & Pictet as a Lutheran colony. It was part of the Warenburg Parish.
The construction of the Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) Hydroelectric Power Station from 1950-1961 created the Volgo Reservoir which flooded several Volga German colonies including the former Stahl am Tarlyk. A new village was constructed on higher ground just to the east of the former colony.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
76
|
208
|
|
|
| 1769 |
63
|
198
|
96
|
102
|
| 1773 |
58
|
188
|
90
|
98
|
| 1788 |
|
235
|
|
|
| 1798 |
|
320
|
|
|
| 1816 |
|
480
|
|
|
| 1834 |
|
798
|
|
|
| 1850 |
|
1,195
|
|
|
| 1857 |
|
|
|
|
| 1859 |
|
1,538
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
2,487
|
|
|
| 1897* |
|
2,447
|
1,211
|
1,236
|
| 1910 |
|
3,640
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
4,095
|
|
|
| 1920 |
462**
|
2,770
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
2,076
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
2,150
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
498
|
2,432
|
1,203
|
1,229
|
| 1931 |
|
2,402
|
|
|
*Of whom 2,425 were German.
**Of which 452 households were German.
***Of whom 2,400 were German (486 households: 1,187 male & 1,213 female).
Lutheran
- 1767, 1798, 1834, 1850, & 1857 Censuses of Stahl am Tarlyk are available.
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): 353.
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.
Pleve, Igor R. The German Colonies on the Volga: The Second Half of the Eighteenth Century , translated by Richard Rye (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2001): 319.
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): 17.