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Location: Germany > Gathering Places in Germany
Gathering Places in Germany
The German cities of Luebeck, Regesburg, Freiburg, and Rosslau were assembly points for the
recruited emigrants. After organizing of larger travel groups, the recruited
emigrants left the assembly points, under the leadership of the commissioners to travel
to Luebeck less often to Danzig, from where the emigrants were to receive free
transportation to Russia by sea. On their arrival in one of the two seaports mentioned,
the emigrants were housed in building especially erected for this purpose.
Source: The German Colonies on the Lower Volga by Gottlieb Beratz.
Before traveling to Russia, marriages, births, baptisms and deaths took place at these
various gathering places. These records provide information about origin and destination
of many emigrants. Many marriages took place in
Luebeck,
a Baltic sea port. A
marriage index of Lubeck
is available on Odessa Digital Library.
For various reasons their stay in those cities was prolonged (frozen
rivers, not enough money, not enough room on ships etc.).
During these longs stays there were baptisms but mainly weddings. Even though
places from where they emigrated from were not given, many of these names point
to the regions of origin.
Most strongly represented are the regions of: Wetterau, Vogelsberg, Spessart,
Rhoen, Odenwald i.e Hessen-Darmstadt, Hanau-Fulda-Wuerzburg regions, then
Isenburg, Erbach, Solms, Loewenstein, Schlitz, Lauterbach.
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Lesser the regions of Pfalz and the Southwest. Wuerttemberg is least
represented in this emigration, since there was an emigration prohibition.
Thueringen emigrants mainly came from the Weimar, Eisenach & Meiningen region,
in Hessen almost entire villages (Herrenhaag) or for the larger part
(Stockhausen) were depopulated.
Source: Handwritten note: Special print "Der Wanderweg der Russlanddeutsche
Jahrbuch 1939 der Hauptstelle f.d. Sippenkunde d. Deutschtums im Ausland",
Karl Stumpp: Die Luebecker Traulisten.
Newly published by AHSGR is the
German Migration to the Russian Volga 1764-1767: Origins and Destinations
by Brent A. Mai and Donna Reeves Marquardt.
This book is the culmination of several years work by the authors locating,
translating, and transcribing manuscripts to verify the previously published
compilations and to look for additional clues about the origins and destinations
of the Volga Germans. In addition to translations of the marriage lists previously
published in part Buedingen, Danzig, Luebeck, Rosslau, Schlitz, and Woehrd,
an additional
72 marriages from St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Luebeck were located, 3 in
Fraenkisch-Crumbach, and 57 in Friedberg will also be included. The book includes
three indices: by name of individuals; by German origin place name; and
by Volga colony destination.
In all 1,365 Volga Germans were located in these German records. This book can
be purchased from AHSGR.
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