Lysanderhöhe (Am Trakt Mennonite Settlement, Samara Oblast, Russia)
Lysanderhöhe was a village of the Am Trakt Mennonite settlement in the province of Samara, Russia, founded in 1864, consisting in 1897 of 22 farms, with a population of 119. A part of the population joined the trek to Turkestan in 1891, while others emigrated to America. In 1914 the population was 146. Franz Bartsch, the author of Unser Auszug nach Mittelasien, was the teacher of the village school. After the Revolution of 1917 the cultural and economic level of the village began to decline. Some of the inhabitants went to Canada and others were exiled. Little is known about the fate of those who remained and the later status of the village.
Bibliography
Dyck, Johannes J. based on a text by W.E. Surukin. Am Trakt: A Mennonite Settlement in the Central Volga Region. Translated by Hermina Joldersma and Peter J.Dyck. Winnipeg: CMBC Publications, 1995.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: II, 709.
Surukin, W. E. und Johannes J. Dyck. Am Trakt, Eine Mennonitische Kolonie im Mittleren Wolgagebiet.North Kildonan, Man., 1948.
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