Wittmann was founded on 3 August 1767 by Baron Caneau de Beauregard as a Roman Catholic colony. It moved to a new location in 1770.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1769 |
43
|
128
|
63
|
65
|
| 1773 |
54
|
186
|
93
|
93
|
| 1788 |
51
|
287
|
142
|
145
|
| 1798 |
57
|
340
|
178
|
162
|
| 1816 |
91
|
521
|
264
|
257
|
| 1834 |
122
|
942
|
492
|
450
|
| 1850 |
153
|
1,416
|
717
|
699
|
| 1857 |
168
|
1,635
|
852
|
783
|
| 1859 |
|
1,477
|
|
|
| 1883 |
|
2,311
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
2,500
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
2,753*
|
1,385
|
1,368
|
| 1905 |
|
3,500
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
3,649
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
4,025
|
|
|
| 1920 |
558
|
3,362
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,972
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
2,364
|
|
|
| 1926** |
534
|
2,783
|
1,323
|
1,460
|
| 1931 |
|
3,408***
|
|
|
*Of whom 2,736 were German.
**Of whom 2,781 (1,321 male & 1,460 female) were German living in 533 households.
***Of whom 3,406 were German.
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): 353.
Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
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): 614.
Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.
Wittmann (Wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian