Bauer was founded on 20 July 1766 by Baron de Boffe as a Lutheran colony.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
55
|
176
|
|
|
| 1769 |
53
|
196
|
107
|
89
|
| 1773 |
54
|
231
|
124
|
107
|
| 1788 |
55
|
331
|
167
|
164
|
| 1798 |
65
|
385
|
205
|
180
|
| 1816 |
85
|
696
|
354
|
342
|
| 1834 |
147
|
1,272
|
636
|
636
|
| 1850 |
153
|
1,854
|
933
|
941
|
| 1857 |
208
|
2,196
|
1,095
|
1,101
|
| 1860 |
112?
|
2,284
|
1,138
|
1,146
|
| 1886 |
314
|
2,617
|
1,303
|
1,314
|
| 1891 |
318
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
321
|
3,437
|
1,687
|
1,750
|
| 1897 |
|
2,821*
|
1,381
|
1,440
|
| 1905 |
|
4,303
|
|
|
| 1911 |
|
4,751
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
4,596
|
|
|
| 1920 |
608**
|
3,718
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
3,238
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
2,882
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
573
|
3,321
|
1,584
|
1,737
|
| 1931 |
|
4,061
|
|
|
*Of whom 2,790 were German.
**Of which 603 households were German.
***Of whom 3,315 were German (569 households: 1,578 male & 1,737 female).
Lutheran
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.
Mink, A.N. Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Saratov Province [in Russian] (Saratov, Russia, 1898): 470-472.
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): 622.
Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 115-130.
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): 18.
Bauer (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian