Franz Hochweiss and Maria Katharina

Citing this biography: Boyd, Michelle, "Franz Hochweiss and Maria Katharina —," article, Olive and Eliza, last accessed [current date]."

Franz Hochweiss was born about 1738. The First Settlers List says that he came from "Schwarz, Dänisch?" but I'm not entirely sure where this is or if it's even a place (dänisch does mean Danish but it's unclear if the transcription is correct). Franz married Maria Katharina —. Maria Katharina was born about 1742.

The family settled in Rohleder, Saratov, Russia 14 June 1766. They are not found in Rohleder in 1798.

It is interesting to note that a possible son of Franz and Maria Katharina, Baltasar Hochweis, was on the Caucasian Line in 1788, apparently at the age of 12. If Baltasar was indeed this couple's son, what does it mean? Did Franz and Maria Katharina die by 1798? Did Baltasar go to a military area by himself at the age of 12 (as perhaps an orphan or, if his parents were alive in 1788, as some sort of apprentice or other young worker)? Or perhaps did Franz and Maria Katharina move to the Caucasian Line with at least one son?

Franz and Maria Katharina’s children are:

1	Hans Adam Hochweiss, born about 1765, perhaps in Germany or Denmark.
2	Probably Elisabetha Hochweiss, born about 1768, of Rohleder, Saratov, Russia, married Franz Knoll, living in Herzog, Novouzensk, Samara, Russia in 1798. Husband: Franz Knoll, b. abt. 1760 or 1763 in Velburg, Bayern, Germany to Andreas Knoll and Katharina —, prob. d. 27 May 1828 in Herzog, Samara, Russia. Children: Barbara Knoll (m. Johannes Mermis), Peter Knoll (m. Catharina Schaefer), Agnes Knoll (m. Peter Schönberger), Anna Maria Knoll, Andreas Knoll, probably Johannes Knoll (d. young), Mathias Knoll, Gregorius Johannes Knoll (m. 1) Elisabetha Jeckel and 2) Elisabeth Herrmann), probably Michael Knoll (m. Anna Elisabetha Resche), Franz Knoll (m. 1) Christina Lauber and 2) Barbara Dukardt), and Teresia Knoll (m. Michael Kenner).
3	Probably Johannes Balthasar Hochweiss, a witness at the baptism of Agnes Knoll, daughter of Franz Knoll and Elisabetha Hochweiss, probably the Baltasar Hochweis who was born about 1776 in Russia, was at the Caucasian Line (the line of Cossack settlements and Russian forts along the north of the Caucasus Mountains) in 1788, returned to the Volga area between 1788 and 1798 and settled at Beauregard, Samara, Russia, and married Maria Branik or Breininger, died in 1829. Wife: Maria Branik or Breininger, b. abt. 1780. Children: Johann Michael Hochweis (m. Maria --), Georg Friedrich Hochweis (m. Christina --), Konrad Hochweis, Johann Christian Hochweis (m. Dorothea --), Maria Katharina Hochweis, Johann Philipp Hochweis, and Elisabeth Hochweis.

Summary of Sources

Pleve, Igor, Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767, Band 4 (Kolonien Reinhardt - Warenburg), Göttingen: Nordost-Institut, 2008.
German Origins Project, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ahsgr.org/resource/resmgr/German_Origins/Ho.pdf, retrieved 27 Oct 2019.
“Surname: Hochweiss,” Volga German Institute at Fairfield University, https://vgi.fairfield.edu/surnames/hochweiss, last accessed 28 October 2019.
Boyd, Darryl and Dreiling, Trecil (comp.), Mariental Parish Records 1789 to 1810, https://volgaparishes.com/mariental_page.html, 2022.
Boyd, Darryl and Dreiling, Trecil (comp.), Rohleder Parish Records 1801 to 1857, https://volgaparishes.com/rohleder_page.html, 2022.
Kholmatov, Bachtiar (trans.), Susly/Herzog 1798 Census, Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1995.
Kholmatov, Bachtiar (trans.) and Rye, Richard (ed.), No. 2794, The 1798 Description of the Saratov Colony of Beauregard, No. 75, Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1996.
“Re: Hochweis / Gohweis,” user: nikweise, posted 17 October 2013, Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen, http://forum.wolgadeutsche.net/viewtopic.php?t=2949&start=20, last accessed 28 October 2019.
“Re: Hochweis / Gohweis,” user: nikweise, posted 17 October 2013, Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen, http://forum.wolgadeutsche.net/viewtopic.php?t=2949&start=20, last accessed 28 October 2019.

Source Materials

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First Settlers List

Kolonie Rohleder
(russischer Ortsname: Raskaty)
gegründet am 14. Juni 1766

27. Hochweiss, Franz, 28, kath. Ackerbauer aus Schwarz, Dänisch?
Frau: Maria Katharina, 24
Sohn: Hans Adam, 1
in der Kolonie eingetroffen am 14.7.1766
erhalten von der Kanzlei in Petersburg 12 Rbl., von der Voevodenkanzlei in Saratov 150 Rbl.
1768 gab es in der Wirtschaft 3 Pfd., 2 Kühe, gepflügt: 1/4 Des., gesät: 6 Četverik Roggen

Source: Pleve, Igor, Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767, Band 4 (Kolonien Reinhardt - Warenburg), Göttingen: Nordost-Institut, 2008.

German Origins Project

HochweissFN: said by the Rohleder FSL to be from UC Daenesch, Schwarz. For 1798 see Mai1798:Hr6. The editor of the published FSL said they were from Danenish Nienhof – no source given for that.

Source: German Origins Project, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ahsgr.org/resource/resmgr/German_Origins/Ho.pdf, retrieved 27 Oct 2019.

Surname Study

Hochweiss
Spelling Variations:
Hochweiss

Settled in the Following Colonies:
Beauregard
Rohleder

Discussion & Documentation:
Franz Hochweiss, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Rohleder on 14 July 1766.

They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 27.

Balthasar Hochweiss is recorded on the 1798 census of Beauregard in Household No. Bo45. It is possible that he is a descendant of Franz Hochweiss.

The 1767 census records that Franz Hochweiss came from the German village of Dänsch [?] in the region of Schwarz.

Sources:
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Bo45.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 54.

Researcher(s):
Brent Mai

Source: “Surname: Hochweiss,” Volga German Institute at Fairfield University, https://vgi.fairfield.edu/surnames/hochweiss, last accessed 28 October 2019.

Mariental Parish Records 1789 to 1810

Births and Baptisms

Photo: 139.3-2
Line: 59
Birth date: 23 Nov 1792
Baptismal date: 28 Nov 1792
Child: Agnes
Father: Knoll Franciscus
Mother: Hochweis Elisabeth
Village: Herzog
Witnesses: Johannes Balthasar Hochweiss & Agnes Glassmann

Source: Boyd, Darryl and Dreiling, Trecil (comp.), Mariental Parish Records 1789 to 1810, https://volgaparishes.com/mariental_page.html, 2022.

Rohleder Parish Records 1801 to 1857

Deaths

Photo: 178-2
Line: 15
Date: 27 May 1828
Age: 55
Name of decedent: Knoll Franz
Village: Herzog

Source: Boyd, Darryl and Dreiling, Trecil (comp.), Rohleder Parish Records 1801 to 1857, https://volgaparishes.com/rohleder_page.html, 2022.

Herzog Census, 1798

Franz Knoll                                   35            Able to work

Wife:
Elisabeta Hochweis                    30                                                            From Raskaty (Rohleder)

Sons:
Peter Knoll                                    8           Unable to work
Andreas Knoll                               1             Unable to work

Daughters:
Barbara Knoll                               11
Agnesa Knoll                                6
Anna Maria Knoll                         3

1 worker
3 horses
4 cows
5 swine
2 geese
20 chickens

In autumn 1796 and spring 1797, he planted:
4 chetverik of rye
1 chetvert and 2 chetverik of wheat
4 chetverik of barley
1 chetvert of oats
1 chetverik of millet

In 1797, he had a harvest of:
7 chetverik of rye
7 chetvert and 7 chetverik of wheat
6 chetverik of barley
1 chetvert and 4 chetverik of oats

Source: Kholmatov, Bachtiar (trans.), Susly/Herzog 1798 Census, Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1995.

Beauregard Census, 1798

made for the Office [Kontora] of Immigrant Oversight by Deputy of the Chief Justice, Court Counsellor Popov, in the Colony of Beauregard, listing the male and female foreign residents and indicating of their ages; which males between the ages of 16 to 60 years are able to work; and remarks about the colony by the colonists. May 14, 1798

No.	Names of Foreigners	Age	No. of Souls		Able or not to work		Remarks*
			M	F	Y	N
45.	Balsar [Baltzer, Baltasar] Gukhvais [Hochweiss?]	22	1		1		At the 1788 revision, he was on the Caucasian Line. Since he returned, he has paid here.
	wife Maria Branik [?]	18		1

* Remarks about those disabled, those discharged with or without passports; information about 3-ruble debt payments

Source: Kholmatov, Bachtiar (trans.) and Rye, Richard (ed.), No. 2794, The 1798 Description of the Saratov Colony of Beauregard, No. 75, Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1996.

Note: In the register describing each household’s workers, livestock, fowl, and crops, Balsar was described as having one worker but no animals or crops sown or harvested.

1816 Census of Beauregard, Russia

Beauregard 1816

Bo x 56 *
Balthasar Hochweis H 40 (1)
Maria Breininger F 36 (2)
A. Johann Michael S 18, geb. ca. 1798 (3)
B. Georg Friedrich S 12, geb. ca. 1804 (4)
C. Konrad S 8, geb. ca. 1808 (5)
D. Johann Christian S 5 ½, geb. ca. 1810 (6)
F. Maria Katharina T 1, geb. ca. 1815 (7)

Source: “Re: Hochweis / Gohweis,” user: nikweise, posted 17 October 2013, Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen, http://forum.wolgadeutsche.net/viewtopic.php?t=2949&start=20, last accessed 28 October 2019.

1834 Census of Beauregard, Russia

Beauregard 1834

Bo x 39
B. Friedrich Hochweis H 30 aus No. 56 (4)
Christina F 26 (8)
Johann Jacob S 6 (9)
Konrad S 1W (10)
Maria Christina T 4 (11)
Katharina Elisabeth T 2 ( 12)
E. Johann Philipp B 15 geb. ca. 1819 (13)

Bo x 56
Balthasar Hochweis H +1829 (1)
A. Johann Michael S 36 (3)
Maria St 32 (14)
Heinrich Gottlieb E 10 (15) in Revision 1834 nur Heinrich
Maria Katharina E 7 (16)
Elisabeth E 5 (17)
Dorothea E 2 (18)
D. Johann Christian S 24 (6)
Dorothea St 24 (19)
Konrad E 2 (20)
Maria Katharina E ½ (21)
F. Maria Katharina T 19 (7)
G. Elisabeth T 13 (22)

Bo x 77
C. Konrad Hochweis H 26 aus No. 56 (5)

Source: “Re: Hochweis / Gohweis,” user: nikweise, posted 17 October 2013, Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen, http://forum.wolgadeutsche.net/viewtopic.php?t=2949&start=20, last accessed 28 October 2019.