Ostenfeld

Names

Ostenfeld, Porki, Voroshilovo

Location

51°06'30" N 46°37'30" E

History

      Ostenfeld was founded by Mennonite colonists from West Prussia in 1872. The colony was named in honor of the Chief Administrator of the Kontora (Office of Immigrant Oversight), Herr Osten-Sacken. Ostenfeld was one of a group of Mennonite Colonies known as the Am Trakt Settlement.
      This village is now known as Voroshilovo.

Population

Population Table

Year	Households	Population
		Total	Male	Female
1886
1891
1894
1897	19	127	66	61
1904
1910	19	149	77	72
1920	27	269
1926	38	295	137	158

Church

      The colonists in Osterfeld were members of the Köppental-Orloff congregation.

Pastors

Coming soon . . .

Sources:
- 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): 402.
- Dyck, Johannes J. Am Trakt: A Mennonite Settlement in the Central Volga Region. Winnipeg, MB: CMBC Publications, 1995.
- List of the Populated Places of the Samara Province (Samara, Russia, 1910): 334.
- Preliminary Totals of the All-Union Population Census of 1926 for the Volga German ASSR (Pokrovsk, Russia, 1927): pp.28-83.

External Links

Ostenfeld (Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online)

Last updated 8 April 2013.

Map showing Lysanderhöh, Orlof,
Ostenfeld, and Medemtal (1935).