Kratzke Population Statistics

Kratzke Population Statistics

Population:

1769 127 in 34 families, 67 males and 60 females
1773 137 in 34 families, 76 males and 61 females
1788 166 in 22 households, 88 males and 78 females
1798 213 in 30 households, 117 males and 96 females
1816 339 in 53 households, 181 males and 158 females,
1834 663 in 79 households, 341 males and 322 females
1850 1,012 in 82 households, 535 males and 477 females
1857 1,214 in 119 households, 637 males and 577 females
1860 1,223 in 81 households, 639 males and 584 females
(in search of more land, migration to the "daughter"
colonies began in the late 1850s)
1886 1,249 in 138 households, 673 males and 576 females
and an additional 84 families permanently absent
(undoubtedly as a result of migration to the "daughter"
colonies and to North America)
1891 1,907 in 133 households, 980 males and 927 females
1894 1,928 in 131 households, 1,020 males and 908 females
1897 2,349
1904 2,233
1910 2,458
1912 2,497
1926 1,282

Kratzke's geographic location is Lat 50º 52’ Long 45º 13’.


Sources:

1) Beratz, Gottlieb. The German Colonies on the Lower Volga: Their Origin and Early Development
. . Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1991).
2) Heimatbuch der Ostumsiedler Kalender (Stuttgart: Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Ostumsiedler, 1955).
3) Klaus, Alexander. Nashi Kolonii (St. Petersburg: Tipografiia V. V. Nusval't, 1869).
4) Minkh, A. N. Historical-Geographic Dictionary of the Saratov Guberniya
. . (Saratov: Publishing Office of the Guberniya Zemstvo, 1898).
5) Sallet, Richard. Russian-German Settlements in the United States
. . (Fargo: North Dakota Institute for regional Studies, 1974)
6) Leibbrandt, Georg. Die deutschen Siedlungen in der
. . Sowjetunion . Berlin: E. Meynen, 1941.


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