Church
The Lutheran congregation in Blumenheim was part of the Gnadenflur parish.
Type of Settlement
History
Blumenheim was founded as a kuhtor (farmstead) on the left bank of the Malyi Kushum River 100 kilometers northeast of Engels. Today the town is called Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star).
Author L. Maier (b. 1923) was born in Blumenheim.
Population
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1920 |
27***
|
175
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
174
|
|
|
| 1926 |
20
|
133*
|
62
|
71
|
| 1931 |
|
511**
|
|
|
*Of whom 109 were German.
**Of whom 478 were German.
***Of whom 25 were German.
Sources
Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon . Moscow, 2006.
Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.