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Jeruslan Nachrichten - Lower Jeruslan River Colonies Research Project

Kleinliebental Homepage

A village that was founded by German settlers in 1804 near the city of Odessa in Ukraine.

Leichtling Home Page

Leichtling, Saratov, Volga, Russia.

Lower Volga Project

Established between 1764-1766, a cluster of nine colonies populated by Germans of the Lutheran faith were established by the Russian government on the west side of the lower Volga River. Among the 104 original colonies founded between 1764 and 1767, this group included both the first and last of the colonies established. The Lower Volga villages are Dobrinka, Dubovka, Dreispitz, Galka, Holstein, Kraft, Mueller, Shcherbakovka, Schwab and Stephan.

Norka a German colony in Russia

History, culture and research of the Volga Germans who settled in the colony Norka, Russia.

Obermunjor, Russia

Odessa, A German-Russian Genealogical Library - Collections

Paulskoye, Russia - A Volga German Village

Schönchen, Russia

Settlements along the Volga

Between 1764 and 1772, 106 colonies were established along the Volga River near Saratov. Historically, these colonies became known as "Mother Colonies". Colonists were assigned to settlements according to their religious confession. As the colonies grew, they became overcrowded, and beginning in the 1848 a series of "Daughter Colonies" were established, mostly to the south and east of the original colonies. The daughter colonies were inhabited by descendants of the original colonists. Another group of new colonies were established at this same time in the midst of the Volga German colonies by a group of Mennonites from West Prussia. Another group of these Mennonites settled in the Volga region to the north of Samara. They were soon joined by a group of Evangelical Germans who established another group of colonies.

SUSANNENTAL a German/Russian Volga Village

A village organization web site for Susannental or Winkelmann as it was sometimes known located on the east side of the Volga River north of present day Saratov. SCHMIDT, WEGNER, WERNER, WASMUTH, LEHMAN, KOBER, RUNK, LOEBER, HERGETT, KORBMACHER, etc.

The Hussenbach Villages of Russia

Many descendants of the Hussenbach Colonies are not aware that there are two such colonies. Our purpose is to attempt to help those people determine from "which" Hussenbach their ancestors originated.

The Village of Grimm, Russia

The Volga Deutsch Home Page for Fischer

Village of Balzer

Volga Russian Germans.

Village of Brunnental, Russia

Village of Dobrinka

Dobrinka, Russia, the mother colony, was the first village in the area, founded on 29 June 1764 by 353 Lutherans from several countries.

Village of Frank, Russia

Orginial settlers and description of the Village of Frank, Russia.

Village of Kratzke, Russia / Zum Dorf von Kratzke, Russland

Village of Norka - AHSGR Surname Chart Listing