Saturday, January 25, 2014

When did the first settlers come to Rohrbach and who?

Let's reconstruct the succession:

1. The original group of settlers in 1809 totaled 26 families, and given its close proximity to Worms, the Colonists from both villages may have traveled together to South Russia.

2. In 1810 an additional 69 families arrived. As in Worms (read "Black Sea Worms"), construction of houses was not completed until 1810.

According to Dr. Karl Stumpp of the 100 plus families that settled in Rohrbach,

  • 33 came from Baden, 
  • 4 from Württemberg, 
  • 12 from the Pfalz, 
  • 7 from Prussian Poland and 
  • 44 from Alsace

Other sources lump the Colonists from the Pfalz and Alsace together since both were French territory.

"The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763-1862" by Dr. Karl Stumpp is often referred to simply as "the Stumpp book." It contains 1,018 pages of history, research, maps, and lists (emigrants, colonies, census, passports, etc.).

3. Additional families continued to arrive in 1813:

  • 22 from Prussian Poland and 
  • 4 from Württemberg

4. Between 1817 and 1819,

  • 16 additional families from Baden and 
  • 6 additional families from other colonies settled in Rohrbach

Among the names of 111 original Rohrbach settlers, the Schochenmaiers are not to be found(((



Joseph S. Height, Homesteaders on the Step, (Bismarck, North Dakota:
North Dakota Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1975) pp. 87-88.





By 1838 the population of Rohrbach totaled 683 individuals, comprising 148 families.

The first Schochenmaier, who was born in Rohrbach (Beresan Colony, Odessa Region), is Margaretha Schochenmaier, born on September 1852, daughther of Ludwig Schochenmaier (about 1830) and Katharina Kuprijahn (or Kuprian) (about 1833). Taking this fact into account, we may conclude that the Schochenmaiers apparently had come to Rohrbach between 1813 and 1852.   




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