Lutheran parish of Gnadenflur Church.
Rosendamm was a daughter colony founded in 1849 along the main railway line 26 kilometers southeast of Fedorovka. The founders came from the colony of Schaffhausen.
The land is 2670 desiatina (1857, 79 families). In 1921, 150 people were born, 284 - died (likely due to the famine at this time).
According to the 1857 Census, this original group was joined in 1853 and 1856 by colonists from Biberstein.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1850 |
|
77
|
|
|
| 1857 |
|
174
|
|
|
| 1859 |
|
|
|
|
| 1883 |
|
1,000
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
1,070
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,217*
|
617
|
600
|
| 1904 |
|
1,817
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
2,042
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
2,200
|
|
|
| 1920 |
305
|
2,182
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,989
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
2,048
|
|
|
| 1926** |
366
|
2,103
|
1,030
|
1,073
|
| 1931 |
|
2,103
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,207 were German.
**Of whom 2,096 were German (363 households: 1,026 male & 1,070 female).
***Of whom 2,022 were German.
Lutheran
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): 17.
Tim Weeder.