Pochinnoe, Karasuk District, Novosibirsk Oblast (Siberia)
Pochinnoe was founded in 1925 by families from the Volga German colony of Kratzke.
Today, nothing remains of the former village of Pochinnoe.
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Lauer-Trujillo, Robin
Robin Lauer-Trujillo founded Lauer-Krauts in Brighton, Colorado. The restaurant features Volga German recipes of her grandmother, Margaret Hoffman Schreibvogel, including krautburgers (a German Russian pastry pocket filled with hamburger, cabbage, onion and "Lauer-Kraut").
Robin's Volga German ancestors came from the colonies of Rothammel and Wittmann.
Bad Soden, Kr. Main-Kinzig, Hessen
Soden had been home to the lords of Hutten, but was mortgaged to the Archbishop of Mainz. By 1889, the are was part of the Kingdom of Prussia.
In 1872, Soden received permission to use the salt water wells in the area for a spa. It officially adopted the name of Bad Soden in 1928.
Today, Bad Soden is administratively part of the municipality of Bad Soden-Salmünster.
Marienfeld, Krasnodar Krai (North Caucasus)
German-speaking colonists founded the colony of Marienfeld in the Armavir region of the North Caucasus in 1881.
Volga German families settled there through the years.
Today, Marienfeld is known as Marino.
Franklin, Johnson Co., Indiana
Volga German families settled in and around Franklin, Indiana.
Brening, Alex & Sally Brening Everett
Alex Brening and his sister Sarah (Sally) Brening Everett founded their first restaurant in 1950 at 2600 Park Road in Lincoln, Nebraska, and began selling runzas, a traditional Volga German hamburger, onion, and cabbage mixture wrapped in dough. There are now over 80 Runza Restaurant locations in Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, and Colorado. [Runzas are called by several different names, depending upon the traditions of particular Volga German families: runza, bierock, krautbierock, krautbrock, krautburger, etc.]
Muskegon, Muskegon Co., Michigan
Volga German families settled in and around Muskegon, Michigan.
Monmouth, Polk Co., Oregon
Volga German families settled in and around Monmouth, Oregon.