The congregation in Schwab was part of the Stephan parish which had been founded in 1771.
Schwab was founded as a Lutheran colony on 8 July 1767 by the Government.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
45
|
132
|
|
|
| 1769 |
44
|
158
|
81
|
77
|
| 1773 |
45
|
187
|
102
|
85
|
| 1788 |
43
|
260
|
132
|
128
|
| 1798 |
45
|
310
|
159
|
151
|
| 1816 |
75
|
506
|
237
|
269
|
| 1834 |
98
|
832
|
439
|
393
|
| 1850 |
142
|
1,277
|
672
|
605
|
| 1857 |
139
|
1,328
|
697
|
651
|
| 1859 |
110
|
1,342
|
707
|
635
|
| 1886 |
117
|
959
|
483
|
476
|
| 1891 |
118
|
1,638
|
832
|
807
|
| 1894 |
118
|
1,783
|
900
|
883
|
| 1897 |
|
1,119
|
561
|
558
|
| 1904 |
|
1,919
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
2,203
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
2,295
|
|
|
| 1920 |
209*
|
1,204
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
872
|
|
|
| 1926 |
205
|
1,105
|
522
|
583
|
| 1931 |
|
1,176**
|
|
|
*Of which 208 households were German.
**Of whom 1,174 were German.
Lutheran
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Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
List of Settlements in the Russian Empire in 1859, vol. 38: Saratov Province (St. Petersburg, 1862): 59.
Mink, A.N. Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Saratov Province [in Russian] (Saratov, Russia, 1898): 95-98.
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.
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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: Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, 1972): 193.
"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 18.
Schwab (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian
Village of Schwab (Rolene Kiesling)