Hildmann

Alternate Names
Hildmann,
Panovka,
Panowka
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Church

The congregation originally belonged to the parish of Kamenka and later to the parish in Semenovka.  Eventually, Hildmann became an independent parish.  A wood church was constructed in Hildmann in 1857 and decidated to St. Wendelin.

Type of Settlement
History

Hildmann, a Roman Catholic colony, was founded on 14 May 1767 by the Crown, 110 kilometers southwest of Saratov.  The original colonists came from Mainz and Fulda.

 

 

Population
Population Table
Year
Households
Population
Total
Male
Female
1767
45
134
64
70
1769
41
136
64
72
1773
42
164
75
89
1788
39
294
181
113
1798
41
278
143
135
1816
64
348
180
168
1834
78
564
273
291
1850
87
829
428
401
1857
84
930
473
457
1859
78
926
486
440
1886
193
1,469
731
738
1891
183
1,849
932
917
1894
183
1,884
961
923
1897
 
1,972*
981
991
1905
 
1,884
 
 
1911
 
2,409
 
 
1912
 
2,587
 
 
1920
341
2,290
 
 
1922
 
1,400
 
 
1926
289
1,493
716
777
1931
 
1,929
 
 

*Of whom 1,649 were German.

Priests or pastors
1921-1922- 1931-1932
?-July 1897
3 July 1897-1899
1899-1914
Religion

Catholic

Sources

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

Schnurr, Joseph, Die Kirchen und das Religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen - Katholischer Teil (Stuttgart: Selbstverlag Joseph Schnurr, 1980): 255-256.

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Surnames with Confirmed Pre-Volga Origins