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Am Trakt, Russia · coordinates 51.73, 47.62 (approximate)

About

Am Trakt village: birthplace of Gerhard A. Wiebe (1873); deaths of Maria Fieguth Wiebe (1890), Gerhard Fieguth (1896) and Catharine Epp (1886).

Born here

Died here

Lived here

Mennonite Encyclopedia III (C. Krahn): founded 1864; 22 farms and 119 people in 1897; part of the village joined the 1891 trek to Turkestan.

Narratives and research

Record compiled 31 October 2026.

About this research

Supporting documentation is linked throughout. This project is an exercise in AI-assisted research and development, and I haven’t manually verified every link or conclusion. All transcriptions and translations of Swiss parish records were made with AI, and their accuracy should be treated accordingly.