Schönfeld

Alternate Names
Mokrous,
Polyanka,
Schönfeld,
Schönfeldt
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Church

Schönfeld was a Lutheran colony.

Type of Settlement
History

Schönfeld was founded in along the Jeruslan River in 1858 as a Lutheran colony by 521 resettlers from the colony of Pobochnaya .

After the 1941 deportation, the village became known as Polyanka.  Today there is not much remaining of this village.

Population
Population Table
Year
Households
Population
Total
Male
Female
1859
 
515
 
 
1883
 
791
 
 
1889
 
863
 
 
1897
 
1,109*
565
544
1905
 
1,510
 
 
1910
 
1,922
 
 
1912
 
2,000
 
 
1920
245
1,520
 
 
1922
 
1,032
 
 
1926
204
943
454
489
1931
 
1,226**
 
 

*Of whom 1,103 were German.
**Of whom 1,205 were German.

Religion

Lutheran

Sources

Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon . Moscow, 2006.

Koch, Fred C. The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 313.

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.