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 The Volga Germans - Hays, KS Posted by:  linkys
N 38° 52.454 W 099° 19.871
14S E 471271 N 4302872
Marking the site where the first Volga Germans to settle area stayed while building their sod dugouts.
Waymark Code: WMEX1P
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 07/16/2012
Views: 5
A marker on the lawn of the former Trinity Lutheran Church, similar to others at interesting historical sites around Hays. While this marker talks about the towns they settled, they were also renowned for their use of stone as a building material. The Ellis County area has several large churches that gives enduring testimony to their presence. The marker in front of this church, which they did not build, reads:
THE
VOLGA
GERMANS
The Justus Bissing, Frederick Karlin, and
Frederick Koerner families stayed on this
site from March 1 till April 8 of 1876, while
they were building their sod dugouts in
nearby Katherinenstadt (Catherine). These
people were the first of nearly a
thousand German-speaking Catholics who
migrated to Ellis County from the Volga
River area of Russia during the late 1870's.
Other Vilga-German villages formed
were Herzog, now Victoria [1876], Obermonjou,
which became Munjor [1876], Pfeifer [1876], and
Schoenchen [1877], as well as Liebenthal in
neighboring Rush County [1876].
The Trinity Lutheran Church stood on this
corner from 1879 till 1965, when St. Joseph's
Catholic Parish bought the church building
and put it to use as an axillary chapel.
HAYS CITY, KANSAS
Group that erected the marker: Hays, Kansas
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link]
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
West 13th and Fort Street
Hays, Kansas USA
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