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Yagodnaya Polyana
Names
Baum, Beerenfeld, Jagodna Poljana, Jagodnaja Poljana, Yagoda, Yagodnaya Polyana
Location
51º58' N 45º36' E
History
Yagodnaya Polyana was founded on 16 September 1767 by the Government as a Lutheran colony.
Church
The Lutheran parish in Yagodnaya Polyana was founded in 1785 as an independent parish with a resident pastor of its own.
A new church was built in 1858 in the Kontor Style. It could seat 1,200 worshipers. Pastors
The congregation in Yagodnaya Polyana was served by the following pastors:
1804-1820 Karl Heinrich Rambach
Yagodnaya Polyana was also served by the following vicar:1820-1821 Martin Gottfried Hermann 1824-1826 Johann Michael Allendorf 1827-1832 Christian Gottlieb Flittner 1833-1835 Ernst Theodor Hellmann 1836-1840 Ernst Wilhelm David 1841-1849 Olivier Christoph Holm 1850-1864 Christian Gottlieb Hegele 1864-1873 Christian David Dsirne 1874-1881 Eugen Friedrich Benjamin Kahn 1882-1906 Julius August Schilling 1906-1908 Felix Coulin 1909-1912 Arthur Woitkus 1912-1917 Rudolf Wold. Dalton 1919-1924 Wilhelm Feldbach 1929-1934 Arthur Pfeiffer
1896-1897 Albert Lesta
Population
Sources:
- Amburger, Erik. Die Pastoren der evangelischen Kirchen Rußlands (Lüneburg, Germany: Institut Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk, 1998): 137-138. - 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): 350. - Orlov, Gregorii. Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II, 14 February 1769. - Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das Religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen - Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, 1972): 193. - "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 19. Resources
Censuses for Yagodnaya Polyana are available for the following years: 1767, 1798, & 1834.
External Links
- Berry Meadow Archive (Richard Scheuerman)
- Eichelsdorfer Auswanderer an der Wolga (in German) - Yagodnaya Polyana Site (Kris Ball) - Photos of Yagodnaya Polyana (2005) (Cindy) Last updated 19 November 2015.
![]() Yagodnaya Polyana Lutheran Church Source: Eichelsdorf Chronik.
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