The congregation in Zug was Roman Catholic.
A wooden church was constructed there in the Kontor style.
Zug was founded on 10 August 1767 as a Roman Catholic colony by Baron Caneau de Beauregard. It was moved to a new location in 1770.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
|
|
|
|
| 1769 |
43
|
133
|
69
|
64
|
| 1773 |
43
|
157
|
84
|
73
|
| 1788 |
37
|
196
|
99
|
97
|
| 1798 |
40
|
238
|
125
|
119
|
| 1816 |
66
|
415
|
215
|
200
|
| 1834 |
106
|
783
|
406
|
377
|
| 1850 |
150
|
1,357
|
675
|
682
|
| 1857 |
195
|
1,420
|
714
|
706
|
| 1859 |
|
1,339
|
|
|
| 1883 |
|
1,996
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
2,127
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
2,415**
|
1,212
|
1,203
|
| 1905 |
|
2,975
|
|
|
| 1910 |
448
|
3,216
|
1,645
|
1,571
|
| 1912 |
|
3,606
|
|
|
| 1920 |
526
|
3,634
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,958
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
2,247
|
|
|
| 1926 |
469
|
2,435***
|
1,187
|
1,248
|
| 1931 |
|
2,813****
|
|
|
*Of whom 2,405 were German.
**Of whom 2,433 (1,185 male & 1,248 female) were German living in 467 households.
***Of whom 2,433 were German.
****Of whom 2,803 were German.
Catholic
Censuses for Zug are available for the following years: 1798, 1834, & 1857.
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.
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.
Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II by Count Orlov, 14 February 1769.
Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen - Katholischer Teil (Stuttgart: Selbstverlag Joseph Schnurr, 1980).
"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 17.
Gattung (Wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian