The congregation in Neu-Mariental belongs to the Roman Catholic parish headquartered in Liebental where there is a resident priest.
Neu-Mariental was founded in 1864 as a Roman Catholic colony and named after the Mother Colony from which most of the resettlers came. It is located 7 versts from Alexanderhöh .
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1889 |
|
595
|
|
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
634*
|
320
|
314
|
| 1905 |
|
793
|
|
|
| 1910 |
194
|
1,149
|
563
|
586
|
| 1912 |
|
1,300
|
|
|
| 1920 |
164
|
969
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
432
|
|
|
| 1926** |
132
|
729
|
352
|
377
|
| 1931 |
|
1,047***
|
|
|
*Of whom 628 were German.
**Of whom 724 (350 male & 374 female) were German, living in 131 households.
***Of whom 1,028 were German.
Catholic
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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): 17.
Neu-Mariental (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian