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Kronau, Saskatchewan
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Kronau is a hamlet in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan located 28 km (17.5 miles) south east of Regina on Highway 33 in the Rural Municipality of Lajord No. 128. Listed as a designated place by Statistics Canada, the hamlet had a population of 209 in the Canada 2006 Census.[1]
Kronau
Location of Kronau in Saskatchewan
History
The area of Kronau was first settled by German-Russians from near the Black Sea and German-Americans from the northern United States during the late 19th and early 20th century.[2]
Heritage sites
- St. Peter's Church and Grotto at St. Peter's Colony[3] is 12 km east of Kronau. The Catholic church was completed in 1904 next to a cemetery established in 1892. The grotto built in 1917 by Father Henry Metzger became a pilgrimage site.[4] Father Metzger, a noted artist,[5] also painted the Stations of the Cross[6] in the church. The church and grotto site was listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places in 2010.[7]
- Kronau Bethlehem Heritage Cemetery or Bethlehem Lutheran Church Cemetery was established in 1896.[8] and was listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places in 1985.
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Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Kronau had a population of 288 living in 101 of its 103 total private dwellings, a change of -26.9% from its 2016 population of 394. With a land area of 0.67 km2 (0.26 sq mi), it had a population density of 429.9/km2 (1,113.3/sq mi) in 2021.[10]
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Amenities
- Kronau Memorial Hall (built in the late 1940s to honour the soldiers coming home from World War II)
- Kronau Heritage Museum
- gas station
- curling rink
- outdoor skating rink
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References
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