Rothammel
Names
Pamyatnaya, Pamyatnoye, Pamjätnoje, Pamjatnoje, Rothammel
Location
50º51' N 45º06' E
History
      Rothammel was founded as a Roman Catholic colony on 21 August 1767 by Baron de B offe. It was named after the first mayor of the colony.
Church
      Originally, the congregation in Rothammel belonged to the parish of Schuck. Later it became an independent parish.
      A wooden church was built in Rothammel in 1824. In 1910, it was replaced by a new facility built of stone.
Priests
      The parish in Rothammel was served by the following priests:
Joseph Ihly (1875-1876)
Markus Marsal
Johannes Vetsch (1887-1894)
Georg Dechand (1897-1906)
J. Schneider (June 1906-?)
Andreas Schönberger (1914-1917)
Johannes Zimmermann (1918-1923)
Josef Veith (1916?-1920)
Franz Rauh
Michael Rauh
Population
Population Table
Year
Households
Population
Total
Male
Female
1767
28
100
51
49
1769
30
107
53
54
1773
29
123
63
60
1788
29
179
87
92
1798
35
215
117
98
1816
39
348
181
167
1834
74
557
302
255
1850
75
777
417
360
1857
89
988
529
459
1859
91
1,020
546
474
1886
179
1,243
595
648
1891
156
1,424
732
692
1894
181
1,563
784
779
1897
1,436*
701
735
1905
1,563
1911
1,790
1912
1,563
1920
272**
1,732
1922
1,543
1926
304
1,717
873
912
1931
2,068
*Of whom 1,420 were German.
**Of which 268 households were German.
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): 352.
- Klaus, A.A. Our Colonies. Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1869.
- Mink, A.N. Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Saratov Province [in Russian] (Saratov, Russia, 1898): 736-739.
- 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): 622.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 11, 81-87.
- Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
- Schnurr, Joseph, Die Kirchen und das Religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen - Katholischer Teil (Stuttgart: Selbstverlag Joseph Schnurr, 1980): 253.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 18.
Resources
Censuses for Rothammel are available for the following years: 1767, 1798, 1834, & 1857.
External Links
Basgall Heritage (John R. Basgall)
Rothammel (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian
Last updated 12 March 2013.
Map showing Rothammel (1935).

Catholic Church in Rothammel.
Source: Heimatbuch der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1972.

Map showing Dietel, Kautz, Kratzke, Rothammel and Sewald.