Loch biography

Loch photo: Artem Korenyuk in October, the Volga village of Loch fell into the tops of the news along with other settlements of Russia with unusual names. We looked closely at the settlement in which the Germans could live. And for sure! Here, a mill was even preserved, built by the Germans-colonists more than years ago. But this is definitely not about our village.

We are proud that we are Lokhov residents, ”says Tatyana Salukhova, head of the Center for Tourism and Local History of the Novoburas district of the Saratov region. According to another, the name comes from German Loch, which means "pit, hole." It could have appeared thanks to local melts-colonists who became famous throughout the district. ” The village is actually in the hollow.

The indigenous Lokhovites consider the “German” version of the priority. The village, founded as a patrol settlement in the year, flourished in the 19th century. There were six water mills. Five of them were rented by colonists from a nearby colony of a berry glade. By the beginning of the 20th century, there were already nine mills in the village. Two plants worked, there were shops, bazaar.

To this day, one mill has survived - the upper one. She is definitely more than years. In E, it was converted and electrified. In the year, the last miller passed away, and the production of flour ceased in m. The equipment was handed over by local residents for scrap metal. In the year, local enthusiasts, however, took up the reconstruction of the mill and the development of the village.

Today in the mill is the museum of objects of the Old Russian life photo: Tatyana Salukhova “The uniqueness of our mill is that all the mechanisms are completely preserved in it,” says Tatyana Salukhova. The millstones are real. Everything is in working condition, except for a roller machine. There are typical brackets for German water mills to remove the millstones. There were no them in Russian mills, and in order to remove the millstone, the miller had to call a person to help.

The Germans were more practical - why distract five men from their permanent work, if this issue could be resolved by technical means? He was born in a year, went to work early. Lost a hand at the mill. But the work saved him and his relatives in the terrible hunger of the beginning of x.

She also helped in m when the Germans were deported. But on the condition that he will replace his German surname to the Russian surname of his wife. However, the stubborn miller remained Kerbert until the end of his days. ” However, the village today is known not only thanks to the name and the mill. There is a manor Don Quixote. And she, of course, with a mill - where without her “Spanish Idalgo”, and now a Russian pensioner who is breeding alpine goats.

True, the mill in the estate is decorative. At the entrance to the village there is a dilapidated church of the 19th century with the remnants of frescoes on the arches. You can safely come to the sucker for a day - as they say, "do not be a fucker!" But you are flashing: the locals came up with this verb, which means "imbued with a place, plunge into the atmosphere of the hospitality of the sucker and get positive impressions."