New Leipzig
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| Location in North Dakota | |||
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| Foundation : | 1910 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | North Dakota | ||
| County : | Grant County | ||
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 22 ′ N , 101 ° 57 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Mountain ( UTC − 7 / −6 ) | ||
| Residents : | 274 (status: 2000) | ||
| Population density : | 119.1 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 2.3 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) of which 2.3 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 715 m | ||
| Postal code : | 58562 | ||
| Area code : | +1 701 | ||
| FIPS : | 38-56420 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1030394 | ||
| Website : | newleipzig.com | ||
New Leipzig is a city in Grant County, North Dakota , and according to the 2000 census , the city has 274 residents.
Founding history
The forerunner and namesake of New Leipzig is the Bessarabian German town of Leipzig in the historical region of Bessarabia , now the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine . Tsar Alexander I had called German colonists into the country in a manifesto of 1813 in order to cultivate the newly won, fertile steppe areas that he had wrested from the Turks in the Russo-Turkish War . Leipzig was created from 1814 onwards by the settlement of German colonists (126 families). The place name is derived from the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig in 1813. Under the direction of the Russian settlement authority, many settlements in Bessarabia places of victorious battles in the newly established were Patriotic War against Napoleon named.
Born in Leipzig, Daniel Sprecher emigrated to the United States via Hamburg in 1885. He initially settled in Dakota, but moved to North Dakota in 1893. When other German emigrant families also settled at his settlement site, the settlement was named in 1895 after his Bessarabian place of birth, Leipzig. When the North Pacific Railway was built 11 miles southwest of Leipzig in 1910 , the settlers moved in July and founded the city of New Leipzig, which still exists today.
In April 1905 German settlers founded the colony of St. Joseph's (Josephstal) in Saskatchewan, Canada. Among them was a settlement called Leipzig. It is not known whether the name of the settlement is associated with the relatively nearby Colony of Leipzig in North Dakota. Leipzig, Saskatchewan lost the status of a village on February 1, 1984 due to too few inhabitants.
City statistics
The data refer to the 2000 census.
- Population: 274 (272 or 99.27% white, 2 or 0.73% natives)
- Households: 131
- Families: 78
- Population density: 118.9 people / km² (206.4 people / mi²)
- Building: 164
- Building density: 71.1 houses / km² (183.4 houses / mi²)
- Residents: 99.27
- Marital status (131 households):
- 28 households or 21.4% have children under the age of 18 who live with their parents
- Married couples lived in 72% and 55%, respectively
- Single women lived in 4 and 3.1%, respectively
- 27.5% single and older than 65
- Average residents per house: 2.09
- Average people per family: 2.76
- Age distribution:
- 20.1% under 18
- 4.4% between 18 and 24
- 19.3% between 25 and 44
- 24.1% between 45 and 64
- 32.1% 65 and older
- Average age: 49 years
- Gender distribution:
- Total: for every 100 women there are 91.6 men
- 18 and older: for every 100 women there are 79.5 men
- Average annual income:
- Budget: $ 30,521
- Family: $ 35,833
- Men: $ 32,000
- Women: $ 17,917
- Income per capita: $ 16,231
- Living below the poverty line:
- Residents: 8.1%
- Families: 2.5%
- Of the under 18s: 9.4%
- Of the over 65s: 13.6%
literature
- Egon spokesman (ed.): Serpenewoje - Leipzig. 1815 to 2015. The development of a Bessarabian village. , 2015, Nuremberg
