The congregation in Göbel was originally part of the Catholic parish in Semenovka. It became an independent parish with a resident priest in 1894. A wooden church was built in Göbel in 1848 and consecrated to St. Wendelin.
Göbel was founded by the Government as a Roman Catholic colony on 25 May 1767 with 72 families from Mainz, Würzburg, and Isenburg. It took its name after the first leader of the colony. By decree on 26 February 1768 the colony was given the Russian name of Ust-Gryaznukha, the name of the river upon whose bank the colony had been located.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
72
|
230
|
131
|
99
|
| 1769 |
73
|
247
|
134
|
113
|
| 1773 |
73
|
288
|
157
|
131
|
| 1788 |
67
|
357
|
182
|
175
|
| 1798 |
74
|
433
|
224
|
209
|
| 1816 |
97
|
606
|
294
|
312
|
| 1834 |
130
|
972
|
486
|
486
|
| 1850 |
163
|
1,423
|
721
|
702
|
| 1857 |
173
|
1,612
|
800
|
812
|
| 1859 |
157
|
1,616
|
795
|
821
|
| 1886 |
304
|
2,213
|
1,142
|
1,071
|
| 1891 |
266
|
2,737
|
1,384
|
1,353
|
| 1894 |
333
|
2,806
|
1,417
|
1,389
|
| 1897 |
|
2,787*
|
1,398
|
1,389
|
| 1905 |
|
2,869
|
|
|
| 1911 |
|
3,147
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
2,936
|
|
|
| 1920 |
394
|
2,593
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,584
|
|
|
| 1926** |
381
|
2,112
|
1,036
|
1,076
|
| 1931 |
|
2,499
|
|
|
*Of whom 2,341 were German.
**Of whom 2,110 were German (379 households: 1,035 male & 1,075 female).
Catholic
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