Wittmann
Names
Solothurn, Solotoje, Witmann, Wittmann, Zolotovka, Zolotoye
Location
51º53' N 47º09' E
History
      Wittmann was founded on 3 August 1767 by Baron Caneau de Beauregard as a Roman Catholic colony. It moved to a new location in 1770.
Priests
Coming soon . . .
Population
Population Table
Year
Households
Population
Total
Male
Female
1769
128
1773
54
186
93
93
1788
51
287
142
145
1798
57
340
178
162
1816
91
521
264
257
1834
122
942
492
450
1850
153
1,416
717
699
1857
168
1,635
852
783
1859
1,477
1883
2,311
1889
2,500
1894
1897
2,753*
1,385
1,368
1905
3,500
1910
3,649
1912
4,025
1920
558
3,362
1922
1,972
1923
2,364
1926**
534
2,783
1,323
1,460
1931
3,408***
*Of whom 2,736 were German.
**Of whom 2,781 (1,321 male & 1,460 female) were German living in 533 households.
***Of whom 3,406 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.
- 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): 614.
- 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
- Wittmann (Wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian
- Wittmann Site by Kevin Rupp
Last updated 5 April 2013.
Map showing Wittmann
on the left (1935).


Wittmann Catholic Church
and Bell Tower.
Source: Heimatbuch der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1972.