Sorkino
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Sorkino
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Sorkino ( Russian Зоркино ) is a village in Saratov Oblast ( Russia ) and a former settlement of the Volga Germans . It has about 750 inhabitants.
geography
Sorkino is located about 100 kilometers northeast of the regional capital Saratov in Marx Rajon , 37 kilometers north of its administrative center Marx, three kilometers from the left, "meadow bank" of the Volga . The federal trunk road R226 leads directly past Sorkino.
The place is the seat of the rural community Sorkinskoje selskoje posselenije, which also includes the nine villages Georgievka, Jastrebowka, Michailowka, Novaya Schisn, Semjonowka, Solotowka, Vasilyevka , Wolkowo and Vorotajewka as well as the two settlements Kolos and Sukhoi. The community has a total of 5720 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
history
1764–1767 the place Zurich was established as a colony of German settlers . The founders include families from Hessen-Darmstadt , Saxony and Nassau . The settlement was named after the city of Zurich , but is also mentioned as Eckert in some sources . After the establishment, the number of inhabitants developed positively and rose by the First World War from 200 to a good 3,000 settlers, mostly of German origin. At the beginning of the 20th century the village had twelve windmills, its own school, a pharmacy and a Protestant church built in 1877. In addition to growing grain, handicrafts were also practiced in winter. In 1915 the name was changed to Sorkino. After the socialist revolution of 1917 and several deportations and the emigration of the German population from the area, the population decreased significantly.
Population development
| year | Residents | including Germans |
|---|---|---|
| 1788 | 256 | |
| 1816 | 550 | |
| 1834 | 966 | |
| 1857 | 1589 | |
| 1897 | 2639 | 2612 |
| 1920 | 3393 | |
| 1926 | 2292 | 2279 |
Note: 1897 and 1926 census data
Buildings and sights
The Protestant Church of Jesus in Sorkino is one of the few German churches in the Volga region that was not completely demolished and has been preserved to this day with relatively minor damage. It was designed by the German architect Johann Eduard Jacobsthal , state master builder in Berlin.
After the old wooden church was destroyed by a lightning strike, a new brick church was built in 1877 with a capacity for 900 people, with a 38 meter high tower, four clocks and an organ. In the mid-1930s, the church fell victim to the massive persecution of religion in the Soviet Union . The devastated building was used for a variety of purposes, including as a warehouse and a cinema, until it was abandoned after a fire in 1992. From 2013, the church was restored true to the original and rededicated on October 3, 2015.
See also
literature
- Homeland books of the country team of Germans from Russia, 1954–2008.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Tino Künzel: Ashes to church. In: Moscow German newspaper. June 29, 2014, accessed August 30, 2016 .