There was a Lutheran Church in Näb. A new organ was purchased for it in 1841. A new church building was constructed in 1873.
Beginning in 1820, Näb served as the parish seat (where the pastor lived) for several neighboring colonies: Meinhard , Susannental, Kind, Brockhausen, Hockerberg, and Orlovskaya.
The following pastor was also assigned to the congregation at Nab:
1831-1861 Johann Christian Bauer
Näb was founded as a Lutheran colony on 13 July 1767 by Baron Caneau de Beauregard.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
|
|
|
|
| 1769 |
14
|
169
|
87
|
82
|
| 1773 |
36
|
148
|
75
|
73
|
| 1788 |
37
|
199
|
94
|
105
|
| 1798 |
39
|
240
|
113
|
127
|
| 1816 |
52
|
360
|
196
|
164
|
| 1834 |
89
|
746
|
376
|
370
|
| 1850 |
122
|
1,066
|
532
|
534
|
| 1857 |
129
|
1,249
|
622
|
627
|
| 1859 |
|
|
|
|
| 1886 |
|
|
|
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,834*
|
912
|
922
|
| 1904 |
|
|
|
|
| 1910 |
258
|
2,600
|
1,350
|
1,250
|
| 1912 |
|
2,748
|
|
|
| 1920 |
371**
|
2,327
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
306
|
1,618
|
770
|
848
|
*Of whom 1,833 were German.
**Of which 367 households were German.
***Of whom 1,617 (770 male & 847 female) were German living in 305 households.
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): 351.
Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
Dietz, Jacob E. History of the Volga German Colonists . Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2005.
Klaus, A.A. Our Colonies (Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1869): 2:13; 4:52-53.
List of the Populated Places of the Samara Province (Samara, Russia, 1910): 292.
Mittheilungen und Nachrichten fuer die evangelische Geistlichkeit Russlands : 1841, p. 295.
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): 613.
Preliminary Totals of the All-Union Population Census of 1926 for the Volga German ASSR (Pokrovsk, Russia, 1927): 28-83.
Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 196.
"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 17.
Näb (Wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian