Brabander

Alternate Names
Audincourt,
Brabander,
Brabenberg,
Kasitzkaja,
Kasitzkaya,
Kasitzkoje,
Kaziskaja,
Kozickaja,
Kozitskaya,
Krasnoarmeiskoye,
Krasnoarmeyskoye
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Type of Settlement
History

Brabander was founded as a Roman Catholic colony on 26 June 1767 by LeRoy & Pictet.

According to Jim Osborne:

"The mill in Brabander was owned by the family of Michael Molleker. Michael migrated to Hays Kansas in the 1922. He was part of the group of refugees that fled Russia and traveled from Minsk to the the displaced persons camp at Frankfurt Oder. Michael Molleker's brother Jakob Molleker, Jr. was already in Hays. He sent Michael Molleker money to get his family out of Brabander. The family also owned a shoe factory before the rise of Communism. They were relatively wealthy, but before they left many of their children starved to death. Michael Molleker, the mill owner, lived to 100 years of age as a farmer in Hoisington, Kansas. His wife was Anna Margaretha Storm, daughter of Johannes Storm and Anna Maria Eberhardt."

 
Population
Population Table
Year
Households
Population
Total
Male
Female
1767
123
366
190
176
1769
102
350
183
167
1773
99
351
177
174
1788
68
398
149
148
1798
78
394
198
196
1816
95
530
269
261
1834
147
889
477
412
1850
162
1,200
616
584
1857
156
1,448
740
708
1859
 
1,496
 
 
1883
 
2,171
 
 
1889
 
2,301
 
 
1897
 
2,369*
1,148
1,221
1910
425
3,051
1,484
1,567
1912
 
3,885
 
 
1920
528
3,305
 
 
1922
 
2,640
 
 
1923
 
2,483
 
 
1926
543
2,580**
1,247
1,326
1931
 
3,153***
 
 

*Of whom 2,355 were German.
**Of whom 2,573 (1,247 male & 1,326 female) were German living in 539 households.
***Of whom 3,128 were German.

Priests or pastors
Religion

Catholic

Resources

Censuses for Brabander are available for the following years: 1767, 1798, 1834, 1850, & 1857.

Sources

Beratz, Gottieb. The German colonies on the Lower Volga, their origin and early development: a memorial for the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first German settlers on the Volga, 29 June 1764 . Translated by Adam Giesinger (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1991): 348.

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

Orlov, Gregorii. Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II , 14 February 1769.

Pallas, P.S. Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. Theil 3,2, Reise aus Sibirien zurueck an die Wolga im 1773sten Jahr (St. Petersburg: Kaiserl. Academie der Wissenschaften, 1776): 609.

Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.

Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 215-242.

Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das Religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen , Katholischer Teil (Stuttgart, 1980), p. 246.

"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.

Surnames with Confirmed Pre-Volga Origins