Berehomet

Berehomet

Берегомет

Berehomet

Basic data

Oblast :

Chernivtsi Oblast

Rajon :

Vyshnytsia district

Height :

467 m

Area :

108 km²

Residents :

8,513 (2004)

Population density :

79 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

59233

Area code :

+380 3730

Geographic location :

48 ° 10 ' N , 25 ° 19' E Coordinates: 48 ° 10 '5 " N , 25 ° 19' 17" E

KOATUU :

7320555300

Administrative structure :

1 urban-type settlement , 1 village

Address:

вул. Центральна 20
59233 смт. Берегомет

Statistical information

Berehomet

Berehomet ( Ukrainian Берегомет ; German Berhometh [am Sereth] ; Russian Берегомет Beregomet , Romanian Berhomete pe Siret ) is an urban-type settlement in the Ukrainian Oblast of Chernivtsi . It is located south of the city of Wyschnyzja am Sereth , about 47 km southwest of Chernivtsi in northern Bukovina . From an administrative point of view , the village of Saritschtschja also belongs to the settlement community .

history

Berhometh station after 1886

Berhometh e.g. At the time of electrification around 1890

Memorial stone for the church in Berhometh

The settlement was mentioned in writing for the first time in the 17th century and belonged to the Principality of Moldova until 1775 .

After the Bukovina was occupied by neutral Austria towards the end of the Russo-Ottoman War (1768–1774) in 1774 , this was confirmed in the peace treaty of Küçük Kaynarca in 1775 , officially as thanks for Austria's "mediating service" between the war opponents. As a result, Berhometh was a part of Austria, first in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , and from 1849 in the newly founded crown land Duchy of Bukowina .

On November 30, 1886, the place was connected to the railway network through the construction of the local railway Hliboka – Berhometh am Sereth (owned by the Bukowinaer local railways). In the middle of the 19th century, German settlers also settled in the place and stayed until the population exchange in 1940. The large Jewish population was more important for the place , but the Hutsuls made up the largest proportion of the population then as now .

In 1888 the village belonged to the entails of the noble family Wassilko von Serecki , who had a castle built there as the new headquarters. Already at the beginning of his second term (1888-1891) the governor of Bukovina , Alexander Freiherr Wassilko von Serecki, ensured that the electrification of Chernivtsi and the region began. His headquarters in Berhometh was one of the first places outside the capital to benefit from it. He also had the old St. Nicholas Church, built by his great-grandfather of the same name, demolished in 1889, re-erected in Schipot (Șipotele pe Siret) and a new one built. Alexander's son Georg became an honorary citizen of Berhometh on May 6, 1914.

The castle of Count Vasilko was burned down by Russian troops during the First World War in 1915 and was never rebuilt.

After Bukovina was annexed to the Kingdom of Romania on November 27, 1918, the place belonged to the Storojineț district. In the course of the annexation of North Bukovina made possible by the Hitler-Stalin Pact on June 28, 1940, he became part of the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (between 1941–1944 again to Romania) and has been part of Ukraine since 1991. In 1963 it was elevated to an urban-type settlement and after 1945 it was an important center of the Ukrainian forest industry.

The city now has a high school, four technical schools and a hospital. Thanks to the promotion of tourism, numerous bars and restaurants can be found. The night bar "Jungle" and the disco "Emilia" provide entertainment.

Personalities

Hariton Borodai (Харитон Архипович Бородай) (1913–1944), Ukrainian poet and journalist
Miroslava Schandro (Мирослава Іванівна Шандро) (1916–1983), Ukrainian ethnographer and folklorist , known for her research on the Hutsuls
Alexander Freiherr Wassilko von Serecki (1827-1893), Fideikommissherr , hereditary member of the manor and governor of the crown land, Duchy of Bukovina
Alexander Count Wassilko von Serecki (1871–1920), K. u. K. Kämmerer , head of the Chamber of Archduke Heinrich Ferdinand Toscana and highly decorated K. u. K. officer
Georg Graf Wassilko von Serecki (1864–1940), K. u. K. Kämmerer, Fideikommissherr, hereditary member of the manor and Governor of the Duchy of Bukovina, Vice-President of the Romanian Senate (1919)
Nikolaus Ritter von Wassilko (1868–1924), Austrian, later Ukrainian politician and large landowner of Romanian origin

Attractions

Park of the former Berhometh Castle of Count Wassilko von Serecki (19th century)
Church "St. Nikolaus" (1889)
Church "St. Michael" (19th century)
Church "St. Iurie" (19th century)