Mennonite settlement on the tract

The Mennonite settlement Am Trakt is a group of former German settlements on the Volga in Russia (today 's Saratov Oblast ).

The settlement Am Trakt was founded in 1854 by Plautdietschen Mennonites from Novousensk and was located between the Tarlyk (Russian Тарлык) and Nachoi (Russian Нахой) rivers, about 60 km southeast of the town of Engels .

A total of 10 villages were founded:

Surname founding year Households in 1910 Households in 1926 Russian name 1. Hahnsau 1854 20th 45 (mostly Russian population) Novaya Kamenka (uninhabited) 2. Koeppental 1855 75 93 Kirovo 3. Lindenau 1858 31 35 - 4. Fresenheim 1860 20th 30th - 5. Hohendorf 1862 20th 32 - 6. Lysanderhöh 1864 23 61 - 7. Orloff 1867 18th 33 Kalinino 8. Valuevka 1868 8th 11 - 9. Ostenfeld 1870 19th 38 - 10. Medem Valley 1873 31 61 Voroshilovo

Map of the settlement on the tract

After the beginning of the Second World War , the German population of the settlements on Am Trakt was deported by rail to the east - mainly Kazakhstan - within a few weeks in accordance with the decree of the Supreme Soviet of August 28, 1941 .

After the war, this region was partly used as a military training area. Some villages in the southeast still exist under Russian names.

See also

• Russian mennonites
• Russian Germans
• History of the Russian Germans

Web links

• At tract Mennonite Settlement (English)

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′  N , 46 ° 23 ′  E