The congregation in Dreispitz was part of the Galka parish which was founded in 1767.
Dreispitz was founded on 16 September 1767 by the Government as a Lutheran colony.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
32
|
107
|
|
|
| 1769 |
31
|
124
|
71
|
53
|
| 1773 |
35
|
151
|
83
|
68
|
| 1788 |
42
|
222
|
112
|
110
|
| 1798 |
44
|
252
|
137
|
125
|
| 1816 |
66
|
449
|
221
|
228
|
| 1834 |
104
|
877
|
441
|
436
|
| 1850 |
132
|
1,369
|
695
|
674
|
| 1857 |
163
|
1,655
|
825
|
830
|
| 1859 |
129
|
1,677
|
835
|
842
|
| 1886 |
|
1,929
|
|
|
| 1891 |
247
|
2,944
|
1,498
|
1,446
|
| 1894 |
240
|
3,080
|
1,566
|
1,514
|
| 1897 |
|
1,727*
|
855
|
872
|
| 1905 |
|
3,312
|
|
|
| 1911 |
|
3,677
|
|
|
| 1920 |
290
|
2,053
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,637
|
|
|
| 1926** |
292
|
1,692
|
844
|
848
|
| 1931 |
|
1,908
|
|
|
*Of those 1,712 were German.
**Of those 1,677 were German (284 households: 831 male & 846 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): 349.
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): 226-231.
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): 621.
Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 371-379.
Pleve, Igor R. The German Colonies on the Volga: The Second Half of the Eighteenth Century , translated by Richard Rye (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2001): 318.
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.
Dreispitz (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian
Village of Dreispitz (Lower Volga Village Project)