The congregation in Basel was part of the parish headquartered in Bettinger . The Lutheran Church of the Ascension in Basel was built of wood in 1839 [1841 per Mittheilungen und Nachrichten ].
Basel was founded on 20 August 1767 by Baron Caneau de Beauregard as a Lutheran colony. It was moved to a new location in 1770.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
|
83
|
|
|
| 1769 |
26
|
83
|
43
|
40
|
| 1773 |
45
|
166
|
80
|
86
|
| 1788 |
46
|
251
|
133
|
118
|
| 1798 |
47
|
295
|
150
|
145
|
| 1816 |
67
|
512
|
253
|
259
|
| 1834 |
109
|
905
|
464
|
441
|
| 1850 |
131
|
1,306
|
659
|
647
|
| 1857 |
156
|
1,476
|
760
|
716
|
| 1859 |
164
|
1,479
|
770
|
709
|
| 1883 |
|
2,295
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
2,357
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
2,627
|
1,321
|
1,306
|
| 1905 |
|
4,310
|
|
|
| 1910 |
442
|
4,864
|
2,486
|
2,378
|
| 1912 |
|
4,795
|
|
|
| 1920 |
440
|
3,410
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
2,998
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
2,807
|
|
|
| 1926* |
370
|
2,550
|
1,243
|
1,307
|
| 1931 |
|
3,380**
|
|
|
*Of whom 2,513 (1,213 male & 1,300 female) were German living in 367 households.
**Of whom 3,361 were German.
Lutheran
Censuses : 1798, 1834, 1857
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): 351.
Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
Mittheilungen und Nachrichten für die evangelische Geistlichkeit Russlands : 1841, p. 295.
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): 614.
Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
Reith, Andreas. Bettinger Lutheran Church, 2009 ( online - in Russian).
Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II by Count Orlov, 14 February 1769.
"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.
Stumpp, Karl. Die Auswanderung aus Deutschland nach Russi in den Jahren 1763 bis 1862 (Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russia, 2004): 68.
Basel (Wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian