Gnadendorf was part of the Lutheran parish of Weizenfeld where the pastor also lived.
Gnadendorf was founded in 1859 as a Lutheran colony. In 1909, 219 people resettled to Siberia. In 1910, Gnadendorf had a Lutheran church, a school, a brick plant, and three wind mills.
Because of their close geographical proximity to one another, Gnadendorf and Rosenfeld were merged into one governmental unit during the Soviet era.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1859 |
|
|
|
|
| 1883 |
|
1,176
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
1,346
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,464*
|
713
|
751
|
| 1905 |
|
1,872
|
|
|
| 1910 |
217
|
2,062
|
1,024
|
1,038
|
| 1912 |
|
2,300
|
|
|
| 1920 |
255**
|
1,908
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,406
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
1,570
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
265
|
1,450
|
723
|
727
|
| 1931 |
|
1,945****
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,446 were German.
**Of which 254 households were German.
***Of whom 1,446 (720 male & 726 female) were German living in 265 households.
****Of whom 1,936 were German.
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