Schulz

Names

Lugovaya Grasnukha, Lugovaya Gryaznukha, Lugovskoye, Lugowaja Gräsnucha, Schultz, Schulz

Location

51º33' N 46º32' E

History

      Schulz was founded as a Lutheran colony on 8 September 1766 by the Government. By a decree dated 26 February 1768, the colony was given the Russian name of Lugovaya Gryaznukha.

Church

      Originally the congregation in Schulz was part of the Rosenheim parish which had been established in 1767.

Pastors

      The congregation in Schulz was served by the following pastors:

Population

Population Table

Year	Households	Population
		Total	Male	Female
1767	28	74
1769	35	127	70	57
1773	32	133	75	58
1788	19	91	50	41
1798	27	142	78	64
1816	28	245	128	117
1834	52	501	252	249
1850	72	731	369	362
1857	76	976	474	502
1859		987
1889		1,105
1897		1,453*	722	731
1905		2,092
1910	179	2,226	1,142	1,084
1912		3,200
1920	202	1,511
1922		1,092
1923		954
1926	180	957	446	511
1931		2,141

*Of whom 1,451 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): 353.
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Klaus, A. Our Colony [in Russian] (St. Petersburg, 1869): 2:14 & 4:56-57.
- List of Populated Areas of the Samara Province [in Russian] (Samara, 1910): 325.
- 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): 612.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 11, 119-126.
- 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.
- Preliminary Results of the All-Union Census of 1926 and ASSR Volga Germans (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
- Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II by Count Orlov, 14 February 1769.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.

External Links

Schulz (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian

Last updated 24 May 2013.

Map showing Schulz (1935).

Map of Schulz (1919).
Source: Fred Zitzer.

Military registration form for Heinrich Richter from Schulz colony.
Source: Ward Richter.

"These are two photos of a box that came from Schulz. My father who was nine years old had the job of carrying it in a bag during their trip to the U.S. He reported that it had belonged to his Uncle who was the Schulz village treasurer and he had kept financial records in the box. It is veneered and keyed. I had it appraised a number of years ago by an expert in European crafts and he said that the quality of the veneer was an exquisite example of the state of that art in rural areas of Eastern Europe in the late 1800s. This is the only physical thing other than a couple of documents that survive from anything brought from Russia by the family."

Photos and descriptions provided courtesy of Ward Richter