Baginsberg
Baginsberg (Ukrainian Баґінсберґ , Polish Bagińszczyzna ) is a former German settlement, today part of the city of Kolomyja (north of the inner city) in Ukraine .
It was created in 1818 after the landowner invited German settlers. The German families came from the Galician settlements of Brigidau (in the Stryi district near Lemberg ), Josefsberg (in the Drohobych district near Lemberg) and Ugartsthal (in the Kalush district near Ivano-Frankivsk ). A total of 17 families arrived as first settlers on the territory of the Baginski family .
At first the place was called Metschikiwka , but was later named Baginsberg in honor of the landowners.
School lessons began in the village in 1820, and since 1871 there was also a church for the local Protestant community. During the First World War , the place was occupied by Russian troops in 1915 and set on fire, the German population fled or was largely expelled, but most of the inhabitants returned to the place after the end of the war and rebuilt it.
In 1940 the Germans were resettled to the German Reich on the basis of the Hitler-Stalin Pact , and as a result, German life in the village ceased. The school became a penal camp and later a driving school. The so-called "German House" was burned down. The church became a warehouse for flax, later a warehouse for the Kolomyja tractor factory, and since 1997 the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has set up the Church of St. Nicholas here.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Impressionen-Baginsberg ( Memento from October 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on www.galizien-deutsche.de (pdf)
- ↑ Excursion through the former German settlement Baginsberg on galizienreisen.ucoz.ua
Web links
- Information on German locations in Galicia
- Impressions from Baginsberg (Ukraine) (PDF; 215 kB). Aid Committee of the Galiziendeutschen eV Publication of January 8, 2012. Accessed December 3, 2016.
Coordinates: 48 ° 33 ' N , 25 ° 3' E