How many Schillings were there?

Schilling (Alt-Schilling)

The mother colony, founded on August 14, 1764 is located south-southwest of Sartatov. It was later known as Alt-Schilling, meaning Old Schilling. The Russian name for the village was Sosnowka. It was located in the Balzer District or Kanton. This village was one of the 104 villages founded by the immigrants of 1764 - 1767 in the middle Volga region near the city of Saratov.
Church: Lutheran
Population: In 1764, the village consisted of 95 families, 215 male and 214 female inhabitants. Later population counts: 1772 (429), 1857 (1966), 1897 (3245), circa 1905 (3351), 1912 (3564), 1926 (2771).
Location: It is located in quadrant C-4 of Karl Stumpf's map of the Volga German villages (available from AHSGR). See Map 1 on the maps page.
Church: Schilling, church records exist from the founding of the village until the early 1900's, and are located at the Russian Archives in Saratov.
Primary Parish: Beideck

Neu-Schilling or Alexandertal

A daughter colony, founded in 1853. The Russian name for the village was Neu-Sosnowka, and it was located in the Kamenka District south of Kraft, and west of Drespitz.
Church: Lutheran, at Rosenberg
Population: circa 1905 (956), 1912 (1010), 1926 (728)
Location: It was located about 169 kilometers (105 miles) south-southwest of Saratov, and is located in quadrant B-7 of Karl Stumpf's map. On the present day Saratov map on the maps page, the village was located north of Volgograd, near Ilovja. See Map 3 on the maps page.
Primary church: Rosenberg, church records exist from the founding of the village until the early 1900's, and are apparently located at the Russian Archives in Volgagrad.
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Neu-Schilling I

A daughter colony, founded in 1855. There was no Russian name for the village, and it was located in the Krasny-Kut District.
Church: Lutheran
Population: 1897(665), circa 1905 (916), 1912 (1084), 1926 (899).
Location: It was located about 153 kilometers (95 miles) southeast of Saratov, and is located near Maifeld in quadrant F-6 of Karl Stumpf's map, and is seen in Map 4.
Primary church: Friedenfeld, near Krazny-Kut. Church records for this church were seen in Krazny-Kut in 1990, and are apparently now available at the archives in Engles.

Neu-Schilling II

A daughter colony, founded date unknown. There was no Russian name for the village, and it was in the Krasny-Kut District.
Church: Lutheran
Population: 1912 (916).
Location: It was located about 39 kilometers southeast of Krasny-Kut, and is located near Neufeld in quadrant F-6 of Karl Stumpf's map, and is seen in Map 4.
Primary church: Friedenfeld, near Krazny-Kut. Church records for this church were seen in Krazny-Kut in 1990, and are apparently now available at the archives in Engles.

Schilling and Konstantinovka

A daughter colony, founded in 1859. It was also called Kopenka and Kottschetnoje, and was in the Krasny-Kut District.
Church: Lutheran
Population (Konstantinowka): 1912 (217)
Population (Schilling): 1857 (211), 1897 (822), circa 1905 (1649), 1912 (1796)
Location: It was located about 129 kilometers (80 miles) southeast of Saratov, and is located in quadrant F-5 of Karl Stumpf's map. See Map 2 on the maps page.
Note: Although these villages are shown as different locations with separate population counts, residents of this area apparantly considered them to be one village and used the names interchangeably.
Primary Parish:  Hoffental

Schilling

A daughter colony, founded in 1895. It was also called Sosnowka, and was located in the Omsk District. This village was part of the Siberian Colonies which were located to the north of Akmolinsk. More than 200 German colonies were founded in this area, starting in 1893.
Church: Lutheran
Population: 1912 (916).
Location: Omsk is located about 1000 kilometers (620 miles) northeast of Saratov. The present day view of this area can be seen in Map 6.

Neu Beideck

A daughter colony of Beideck, was founded in part by 128 Schilling residents in 1859. Schilling residents often married into families from Beideck, and so there is a close connection between these two villages.
Church: Lutheran
Population: 1912 (972), 1926 (517).
Location: It was located about 75 kilometers south of Krasny-Kut, and is located west of Eckheim in quadrant F-6 of Karl Stumpf's map, and is just off the upper left side of Map 4.
Primary church: Most likely Friedenfeld, near Krazny-Kut.