The congregation in Laub was part of the Warenburg Lutheran Parish which had been established in 1770.
Laub was founded as a Lutheran colony on 12 July 1767 by LeRoy & Pictet.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
68
|
201
|
|
|
| 1769 |
61
|
193
|
106
|
87
|
| 1773 |
56
|
219
|
116
|
103
|
| 1788 |
|
271
|
|
|
| 1798 |
|
369
|
|
|
| 1816 |
|
533
|
|
|
| 1834 |
|
927
|
|
|
| 1850 |
180
|
1,536
|
751
|
785
|
| 1857 |
201
|
1,770
|
903
|
867
|
| 1859 |
|
1,811
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
2,105
|
|
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
2,252*
|
1,126
|
1,126
|
| 1904 |
|
3,143
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
3,750
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
3,821
|
|
|
| 1920 |
374
|
2,948
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,849
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
1,857
|
|
|
| 1926** |
373
|
1,884
|
894
|
990
|
| 1931 |
|
2,460***
|
|
|
*Of whom 2,230 were German.
**Of whom 1,775 were German (368 households: 889 male & 986 female).
***Of whom 2,440 were German.
Lutheran
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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): 609.
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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 Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 348.
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