Linjowo (Volgograd)

Urban-type settlement Linjowo Линёво Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Volgograd Rajon Zhirnovsk Founded 1767 population 6037 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 82545 Post Code 403770 License Plate 34, 134 OKATO 18 212 562 Website www.linevo.h16.ru Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 53 '  N , 44 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '54 "  N , 44 ° 49' 32"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Volgograd Oblast

Linjowo (also Linewo , Russian Линёво , until 1941 Hussenbach / Гуссенбах or Eustenbach / Устенбах or Linjowo Osero / Линёво-озеро) is an urban-type settlement in the district of Zhirnovsk district in the Russian Oblast of October 14, 2010, Volgern Oblast .

Geographical

The village is located west of the Volga , on the slopes of the ridge Volga Upland on the banks of the river Medveditsa and the lake Linjowo.

history

founding

The settlement was founded in 1767 under the name Hussendorf as a settlement of the Volga Germans . The founding was initially led by Bernhard Ludwig von Platen , who led a total of 137 families to the place where the town was founded. With the creation of the Saratov Governorate , it initially belonged to this. By 1886, the place had grown to a total of 499 houses, the majority of which were made of wood. Due to this fact, more than 300 houses and the church were destroyed in a fire in 1896. The structure of the previous settlement was retained during the reconstruction. From 1918 until its dissolution, Hussendorf belonged to the Volga German Republic . Then the place was renamed Linjowo and assigned to the Volgograd Oblast.

Forced relocation

In the course of the dissolution of the Volga German Republic, the forced relocation of the residents of Hussenbach began in September 1941. After all livestock had been surrendered, the inhabitants were forcibly relocated to the Slavgorod region in what is now the Altai region in Siberia and other areas in the Asian part of the Soviet Union .

Population development

year	Residents
1767	525
1912	8080
1926	6623
1939	7137
1959	6437
1970	6655
1979	6836
1989	6773
2002	6697
2010	6037

Note: from 1926 census data

Shortly after it was founded, around 525 residents lived in the place. By 1912 the number of inhabitants rose to 8,080, in 1926 there were still 6,623 inhabitants. With the dissolution of the Volga German Republic in 1941, all residents of German descent were forcibly resettled. By the 1970s, the population rose again to just under 7,000; since then it has fallen again, but is still above 6000.

religion

Before 1941, the majority of the inhabitants belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran Church . The first pastor came to the parish as early as 1768. Hussenbach belonged to the diocese in Frank . In addition to Frank and Hussenbach, the diocese also included Kolb and Walter . The first wooden church in Hussenbach was built in 1885. After the great fire in 1896, the church was replaced by a larger brick building that could accommodate up to 2500 people.

Personalities

• Bernhard Ludwig von Platen (* around 1733; † 1774), Prussian officer and the first Volga German poet
• Bruno Genrichowitsch Reiter (1941–2019), Russian politician and professor of genetics
• Ilya Schkurenjow (* 1991), Russian decathlete

literature

• Frieda Eichler Brulotte and Louise Elton Potter: Germans From Russia in the Yakima Valley, Prior to 1940 , Yakima (Washington) 1990
• Between 1994 and 1999 the self-published magazine Hussenbach Review was published quarterly in the USA

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)

Web links

• Linjowo website (Russian)