Yablonovka, Saratov Oblast
Jablonowka (Russian Яблоновка until 1941 Lauwe, formerly arbor, Schönfeld ) is a village in the Saratov Oblast is (Russia ), which was founded in the 18th century by Volga Germans.
Geography
The village is about 50 km in a straight line south of angel on the left, there as " meadow side " designated bank of the Volga between the villages Priwolschskoje ( until 1941 Kukkus ) and Oktjabrskoje ( until 1941 Popowkina, German Jost ).
It belongs to the rural community Priwolschskoje selskoje posselenije of Rajons Rownoje.
History
Lauwe was founded on August 19, 1767 by 169 Lutheran immigrants from Germany, who had followed the manifesto for the settlement of foreigners in Russia, the Russian Empress Catherine II 22 July 1763 following promise:
- Free transport and money lump sum, to assist them on the journey
- Freedom settle down where they always want
- Freedom of trade
- Tax exemption for 30 years
- Interest-free loan for 10 years
- Religious freedom
- Permanent freedom from conscription
- Right to freedom of returning to their home countries when they want, but at their own expense.
The name was derived from Lauwe family name of the first village elders. The reported reason for the community Lauwe was 4455 desjatin. The first 47 families came from Bavaria (Nuremberg, Germany ), Baden, Hessen (Darmstadt, Neu-Isenburg ), the Palatinate, the Rhineland, Saxony and Brandenburg.
Lauwe was one of the ten colonies of LeRoy and Pictet south of Saratov along the rivers Volga and Terlyk on the meadow side ( eastern side) of the Volga were founded.
1774 Lauwe was plundered by the rebels of the peasant uprising led by Pugachev Yemelyan.
Between 1902 and 1914 emigrated part of Lauwe settlers to South and North America, after the special status of the German colonists by the Russifizierungsmaßnahmen due to the " approximation of the law" of the Russian Tsar Alexander II was abolished and a part of the military service conscript male settlers in Russian - Ottoman war (1877-1878) had fallen.
With the deportation of the Volga German settlers arrived on September 16, 1941 ( history of the Germans from Russia ), after the invasion of the German Empire to the Soviet Union, was renamed Jablonowka (eg, village of the apple trees ', according to a nearby canyon with wild apple trees ). The built of solid wood houses of the Volga Germans were torn down and used as firewood.
The expected after -war period of Lauwe settlers Wiederherstelung of the Autonomous Republic of the Volga Germans and return from Kazakhstan to Lauwe were finally canceled by the political action of the then Russian President Boris Yeltsin on 21 February 1992 in the Saratov region.
Today, the village is predominantly inhabited by Russians.
Demographics
The following overview shows the evolution of populations of Lauwe until 1931.