Settlements along the Volga > Original Colonies > Hockerberg
Hockerberg
Names
Alexandrovka, Alexandrowka, Bohn, Bonn, Hockerberg
Location
51º45' N 45º24' E
History
Hockerberg, a Lutheran colony, was founded on 15 August 1767 by Baron Caneau de Beauregard.
Population
Year |
Households |
Population |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Total |
Male |
Female |
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| 1767 | ||||
| 1769 | 24 |
105 |
60 |
45 |
| 1773 | 24 |
110 |
55 |
55 |
| 1788 | 19 |
105 |
55 |
50 |
| 1798 | 19 |
107 |
54 |
53 |
| 1816 | 33 |
231 |
116 |
115 |
| 1834 | 48 |
407 |
203 |
204 |
| 1850 | 66 |
633 |
315 |
318 |
| 1857 | 75 |
725 |
355 |
370 |
| 1859 | 71 |
645 |
324 |
321 |
| 1886 | ||||
| 1891 | ||||
| 1894 | ||||
| 1897 | 1,102 |
555 |
547 |
|
| 1904 | ||||
| 1910 | 189 |
1,676 |
868 |
808 |
| 1912 | 1,792 |
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| 1920 | 235 |
1,475 |
||
| 1922 | 918 |
|||
| 1926 | 172 |
979 |
492 |
487 |
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.
- 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): 613.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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): 613.
- 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.
External Links
Hockerberg (Wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian
Last updated 5 April 2013.
Map showing Hockerbergin the center (1935).