Denver Metropolitan Area, Colorado
Denver, originally part of Kansas Territory, was founded in 1858. Today, Denver is the capital of the State of Colorado and its largest city. The city and county of Denver are one and the same, but what many consider to be "Denver" is also located in the surrounding counties of Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas, Broomfield, and Jefferson.
Volga German families can be found living in and around Denver during the earliest years of immigration to North America.
The neighborhood of Denver that was originally founded by Volga Germans was known as Globeville, but today, Volga German descendants can be found in almost all neighborhoods of the Denver metropolitan area.
In Westminster, many Volga German families were affiliated with Valley Lutheran Church.
Globeville
Sallet reports that as early as 1885, Volga Germans were settling in the Globeville neighborhood of Denver, coming mostly from other Volga German settlements in the United States. By 1930 Globleville had an established settlement with well over 500 Protestant Volga German families from Norka, Beideck, Dobrinka, Dönhof and Frank along with 200 Roman Catholic Volga Germans mostly from the colony of Göbel.
Globeville was an independently incorporated as a town in 1891. In 1902, it was annexed into the city of Denver. The Globeville neighborhood northwest of downtown Denver was bisected and re-bisected by the construction of I-25 in 1958 and I-70 in 1964 which intersected in the heart of the neighborhood.
The following Volga German families are known to have settled in and around Denver:
Achziger from Kolb
Adler from Kolb
Alles from Walter
Alt
Amen
Anschutz from Nieder-Monjou
Appelhanz
Arndt from Norka
Axt from Jost
Basgall / Baskall from Rothammel
Bastron
Batt from Dietel
Bath from Frank
Bauer from Frank
Becker
Befort
Befus
Begler from Katharinenstadt
Beilman from Katharinenstadt
Beitz
Bernhardt
Berschauer from Kratzke
Bettinger
Betz from Neu-Messer
Bissing from Katharinenstadt
Bisterfeldt from Nieder-Monjou
Blehm from Kratzke
Blum from Norka
Bohl from Huck
Borgens from Frank
Bott from Norka
Boxberger from Kratzke
Brack from Schönfeld
Brautigam from Kolb
Brehm from Norka
Brenning from Kutter
Bretthauer
Bretz from Köhler
Brotzmann from Huck
Brungardt from Herzog
Buderus from Walter
Burbach from Norka
Butz
Buxbaum from Franzosen
Buxmann
Case from Göbel
Dechant from Ober-Monjou
Degenhardt from Sewald
Deines from Kratzke
Depperschmidt from Liebental
Derr from Norka
DeWald from Hussenbach
Diehl
Dietz from Kratzke & Walter
Ditter
Dolberg from Neu-Beideck
Dorzweiler from Katharinenstadt
Dotz from Enders
Dreiling from Herzog
Dreith from Beideck
Dumler
Eberle
Eckhardt from Frank
Ehrlich from Shcherbakovka
Eichler
Eichmann from Schwab
Fabrizius from Kratzke
Fahrenbruch
Feuerstein
Fladung from Schönchen
Flohr from Merkel
Foos from Merkel
Frank
Frickel from Kautz
Fritzler from Grimm
Fuchs / Fox
Funk from Hussenbach
Galyardt
Gareis from Köhler
Gasner from Brabander
Gassman from Mariental
Geist from Ober-Monjou
Gelroth from Bauer
Gerhardt
Gette from Semenovka
Gettmann from Brunnental
Giebelhaus from Norka
Giesick
Glantz from Norka
Gomer
Graff from Neu-Ober-Monjou
Green from Norka
Greenwald
Gross from Mariental
Grosskopf
Haas from Wittmann
Haberkorn from Göbel
Hamburger from Norka
Heberlein from Walter
Heimbichner from Frank
Hein
Heiser
Heit from Semenovka
Helfenbein from Stephan
Helzer from Norka
Hempel from Huck
Henkel from Norka
Herbel
Herman
Hershfeldt / Hirschfeld from Pfeifer
Hildebrandt
Hill from Walter
Hochnadel from Schuck
Hoff
Hofferber
Hoffmann
Hohnstein from Norka
Horning
Horst
Huwa from Dönhof
Ingenthron(e) from Kamenka
Jacoby
Jakel / Yekel
Jager / Jeger / Yeager from Dietel
Johannes from Kukkus
Jost / Yost
Juckert / Yuckert
Jung / Young
Kaiser
Kammerzel(l) from Frank & Walter
Karlin from Katharinenstadt
Karst
Katzdorn from Zug
Kaufmann
Keller
Kerbs
Kern
Kindsvater from Dietel
Kippes from Pfeifer
Kisner from Pfeifer
Kissler
Klaus
Klein
Kleweno
Kloberdanz
Knaub
Knaus
Koch / Cook
Koleber from Kratzke
Kraus
Krening
Krieger
Lais from Brunnental
Lambrecht from Pfeifer
Langhofer from Straßburg
Lapp from Frank
Laubhan from Shcherbakovka
Lauch
Lebsack
Lechman
Lederhos from Rohleder
Lefler
Legleiter from Liebental
Leikam from Katharinenstadt
Leiker from Ober-Monjou
Leonard
Lesser from Frank
Lichtenfeld
Lind from Dönhof
Lin(n)enberger from Herzog
Loos
Luft
Lungren
Lutz from Frank
Mai from Kratzke
Maier
Manweiler from Rosenberg
Margheim from Merkel
Mari from Sewald
Martin
Maul
Meininger from Messer
Meis from Katharinenstadt
Meisner from Grimm
Meng
Mermis from Herzog
Michaelis from Kratzke
Mildenberger
Mill from Dietel
Miller from Beideck
Mohrlang
Nazarenus
Nau
Niedens from Wiesenmüller
Niernberger from Ober-Monjou
Nuss
Oblander
Ochs from Schönfeld
Ostermiller
Ostwald
Pappenheim from Dönhof
Pfannenstiel
Pfeif from Frank
Pfeifer from Herzog & Pfeifer
Pfenning from Norka
Reiber
Reifschneider from Saalfeld (Rostov)
Rein
Reisbeck
Reisig from Gnadentau
Reiswig
Reitz
Richmeier from Herzog
Rieger
Riffel from Galka
Rodenberger from Hussenbach
Rome from Herzog
Rommel
Ross from Norka
Roth
Ruhl
Rutt from Kolb
Sander from Herzog
Sauer from Norka
Schafer
Schamberger from Kamenka
Scheidemann
Schell from Sewald
Scheller from Dönhof
Schenfeld from Marienfeld
Scheuermann
Schibbelhut from Rosenberg
Schiel from Göbel
Schillereff from Kolb
Schimpf from Oberdorf
Schlager from Merkel
Schleiger
Schleining
Schlitt from Norka
Schlotthauer
Schmer from Norka
Schmick
Schmidt
Schneider
Schneidmiller
Schnell
Schnorr
Schoendaller from Liebental
Schreibvogel from Wittmann
Schreiner
Schupman from Schönchen
Schwab
Schwabenland
Schwartzkopf
Schwien from Kratzke
Seitz from Mariental
Sell from Norka
Sewald
Sinner
Sitzman from Frank
Spady from Norka
Spies from Liebental
Spreier from Dietel
Staab from Katharinenstadt
Stadler from Kamenka
Stegman
Steinbach
Steinmark
Stencel / Stenzel from Hussenbach
Sterkel from Norka
Stoll from Erlenbach
Stoppel from Nieder-Monjou
Strassheim
Stroemel from Kamenka
Stroh
Suppes
Tautfest
Thiel
Traudt
Trupp
Uhrich
Ulrich
Urban from Kamenka
Vogel
Vonfelt
Wacker from Norka
Wagner
Waldschmidt from Ober-Monjou
Walter(s)
Wamboldt
Wasinger from Herzog
Weber
Weidemann
Weil
Weinmeister from Dietel
Weiss
Weitzel
Wendler from Ober-Monjou
Werth from Schönchen
Wiesner
Wilhelm
Willmann from Neu-Messer
Windholz from Herzog
Winter
Wirth
Wittmann from Eckheim
Wolf from Katharinenstadt
Yost from Norka
Younger from Herzog
Zahn
Zeiler
Ziegler from Köhler
Zier from Dietel
Zimmermann
Zink from Marienfeld
Zwetzig
- Bardeen, Tara. "Neighborhood Ties: Globeville." Go Play Denver (2 January 2017). (online)
- Doeppers, Daniel F. "The Globeville Neighborhood in Denver." Geographical Review 57:4 (October 1967): 506-522.
- Reisbick, Anna M. Garden Place - Globeville: 1885-1950 (published by the author in 1995).
- Sallet, Richard. Russian-German Settlement in the United States (Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1974): 49-50, 60.
- Our Parish and the Globeville Community
- USA Settlement List (Patricia Miller)
- Denver (Wikipedia)
- Globeville Story : Germans from Russia (Mary Lou Egan)
- Westminster, Colorado (Wikipedia)
Pre-Volga Origin
Globeville in Denver
(upper/center)
Source: Geographical Review, 1967.
Ethnic Groupings, 1950
Globeville Neighborhood (Denver)
Source: Geographical Review, 1967.