Jablonovka (Saratov) (in Russian "Яблоновка", to 1941 Lauwe, earlier also Laube, Schönfeld) is a village in the Saratov Oblast (Russia) which was founded in the 18th century by Volga Germans.
coordinate: 51° 3′ 36″ N, 46° 1′ 12″ O
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The village lies about 50 kilometres of air line to the south of Engels with the left, there as "a meadow side" called shore of the Volga to the villages Privolzhskoje (to 1941 Kukkus) and Oktyabrskoye (to 1941 Popowkina, in German Jost).
It belongs to the rural community Priwolschskoje of the Rovensky District, Saratov Oblast.
Lauwe was founded 19 August 1767 by 169 Lutheran immigrants from Germany who were followed the manifesto to the settlement by foreigners in Russia of the Russian czarina Catherine II from the 22nd of July, 1763. The name Lauwe was derived from the surname of the first village-oldest. The stated reason for the municipality of Lauwe amounted to 4455 Desjatinen. The first 47 families came from Bavaria (Nuremberg), Baden, Hessen (Darmstadt, Neu-Isenburg), the Palatinate, to Rhineland, Saxony and Brandenburg. In 1774 Lauwe was looted by the rebels of the Pugachev's Rebellion under leadership of Yemelyan Pugachev.
Lauwe was one of ten colonies which were founded from LeRoy and Pictet to the south of Saratow along the rivers Volga and Terlyk on the meadow side (eastern side) of the Volga.
Between 1871 and 1914 a part of the Lauwe colonists emigrated to America, after the special status of the German colonists was nullified by the measures to the russification as a result of the "adjustment law" of the Russian czar Alexander II and a part of the male colonists up to the conscription at Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) was killed in action.
With the deportation of the Volga-German colonists on the 16th of September, 1941 (History of Germans in Russia and the Soviet Union), after the Raid of the German empire on the Soviet Union, the renaming occurred in Jablonovka (approximately‚ "village of the apple trees", after a nearby gulch with overgrown apple trees). The houses established of massive wood of the Volga-German were torn off and when firewood was used.
After the wartime of Lauwe colonist expected restoration of the autonomous republic of the Volga Germans and return from Kazakhstan to Lauwe were called off by the political action of the Russian president at that time Boris Yeltsin on the 21st of February, 1992 in the area Saratow finally.
They of Lauwe colonist, as well as also of the Volga-Germans all together, as a result of deportation and expropriation carried damages by repressions, existence destruction, death by hard labour in labour camps, material and social losses were compensated till this day . Today the village is inhabited mainly by Russians.
Follow owerview show the population development of Lauwe colonist up to 1931.
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From "http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jablonovka_(Saratov)" Category: Place in the Oblast Saratov
