Beideck
Names
Baideck, Beideck, Talovka, Talowka
Location
51º10' N 45º40' E
History
Beideck was founded on 10 August 1764 by the Government as a Lutheran colony.

The Lutheran magazine Friedensbote was published in Beideck frorm 1885-1915. A home for the elderly (called "Bethany") was founded in 1891. An orphanage (called "Nazareth") was founded there in 1895.

Church
The Lutheran parish in Beideck was founded in 1767.
Pastors
The Lutheran parish in Beideck was served by the following pastors:
1767-1770 Georg Christian Seyer
1771-1778 Laurentius Ahlbaum
1793-1820 Johann Martin Otto
1821-1828 Lukas Cattaneo
1828-1828 Heinrich Köpke
1830-1836 Alexander Haken
1836-1850 Christian Gottlieb Hegele
1852-1858 Karl Dönhoff
1859-1880 Felician Joseph Dittrich
1883-1901 Hugo Julius Günther
1887-1888 Liborius Behning
1890-1892 Gotthold Eduard Hahn
1895-? Johann Georg Schwartz
1896-? Johann Romann
1900-1903 Eduard Seib
1901-1905 Johannes Nikolaus Blum
1908-1910 Waldimir Thumin
1918-1929 Herbert Julius Günther

The following pastors are "sons" of the congregation:
Herbert Julius Günther
Gustav Ferdinand Otto

Population
Population Table
Year
Households
Population
Total
Male
Female
1767
1769
298
1773
75
360
185
175
1788
74
519
254
265
1798
92
581
311
270
1816
126
942
485
457
1834
196
1,574
825
749
1850
201
2,471
1,298
1,173
1857
288
3,112
1,583
1,529
1859
228
3,210
1,640
1,570
1886*
496
4,117
2,141
1,976
1891
371
5,809
2,961
2,848
1894
426
5,797
2,944
2,853
1897
3,890**
1904
6,428
1910
7,519
1912
7,054
1920
4,338
1922
3,906
1923
3,668
1926***
721
4,210
2,042
2,168
1931
4,307****
*Along with 195 households "permanently absent."
**Of whom 3,824 were German.
***Of whom 701 households (4,123 individuals: 1,994 male & 2,129 female) were German.
****Of whom 4,266 were German.
External Links
Beideck (Wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian
Homepage der Familie Beideck
Sources:
- 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): 348.
- Joseph Schnurr, Die Kirchen und das Religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen, Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 191.
- Pleve, Igor R. The German Colonies on the Volga: The Second Half of the Eighteenth Century, translated by Richard Rye (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2001): 318.
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Last updated 15 January 2010.


Beideck church in 2001 used as a "house of culture". Photo courtesy of Steve Schreiber.

The Friedensbote: Monatsblatt für das Christliche Haus, was a monthly magazine published in the colony of Beideck from 1884 to 1915. This issue was published by Pastor Günther from Beideck (Talowka).