Berehove

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Berehove
Берегове
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Berehove (Ukraine)
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Basic data
Oblast : Zakarpattia Oblast
Rajon : District-free city
Height : 115 m
Area : 19.00 km²
Residents : 26,554 (2004)
Population density : 1,398 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 90200
Area code : +380 3141
Geographic location : 48 ° 12 '  N , 22 ° 39'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '23 "  N , 22 ° 38' 32"  E
KOATUU : 2110200000
Administrative structure : 1 city , 1 village
Mayor : István Gajdos
Address: вул. Б. Хмельницького 7
90200 м. Берегове
Website : http://www.bereg.net.ua/
Statistical information
Berehove (Zakarpattia Oblast)
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Berehove (Ukrainian Берегове ; Rusyn Берегово / Berehovo , Russian Берегово / Beregovo , Hungarian Beregszász , German Bergsaß or older Lampert House , Czech and Slovak Berehovo ) is a city in the Zakarpattia Oblast in western Ukraine ( Carpathian Ukraine ) near the Hungarian border, and is the Administrative center of Berehove district .

Church in place

geography

location

The place is located on the large Szernyes swamps not far from the mouth of the Borschawa in the Tisza .

population

In 2004 the city had 26,100 mostly Hungarian inhabitants, in 2001 there were 26,600, of whom 12,800 stated their nationality as Hungarian, 10,300 Ukrainian, 1,700 Gypsy and 1,400 Russian. However, the actual proportion of gypsies (mainly Roma) is likely to be significantly higher.

structure

In addition to the actual city, the village of Satyschne (Ukrainian Затишне , Hungarian Tasnád ) also belongs to the administrative area.

religion

Berehove is the official seat of the Bishop of the Reformed Church in Transcarpathia .

history

Postcards from Berehowe Dam in 1900

In the 11th century, a settlement with the name Lamperthaza or Luprechaza was built in the area of ​​today's settlement . However, this was destroyed during the Mongol invasions in 1240/1241.

Then the place was re-established, in 1284 it was mentioned in writing for the first time as Beregzaza , since 1271 it has been the capital of Bereg County and since 1342 it has been a royal free town . In 1566 it was again devastated by the Mongols, in 1657 by the Poles and in 1686 by the Kuruc .

At the end of the 19th century, Beregszász was the chief town of the county, which is crossed by the Hungarian Northeast Railway , with (1881) 6930 inhabitants, viticulture and quarries, court of justice and tax inspectorate.

In 1910 the city had 12,933 inhabitants of whom 12,432 were Hungarians , 221 Ruthenians and 140 Germans.

Until 1919 the city was the capital of the Hungarian county of Bereg . Then it became part of Czechoslovakia with the Carpathian Ukraine and belonged again to Hungary from 1938 to 1945 due to the First Vienna Arbitration . From 1945 to 1991 Berehove belonged to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic of the USSR . Since June 15, 2001 the city has been under oblast administration.

After the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944, the Jewish population of Beregszász was first brought to the ghetto established by the occupiers in the city , from where most of them were deported to Auschwitz and murdered. The arrival of three deportation trains in the extermination camp and the selection made there are recorded photographically in the Auschwitz album .

traffic

The station is on the Batjowo – Korolewo railway line . There is also a narrow-gauge network in Berehove .

Berehove is located on the European route 81 from Uzhgorod to Constana. The M 23 road leads to Munkatsch.

Twin cities

Personalities

See also

Web links

Commons : Berehowe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 17.05.2001 № 2427-III Про віднесення міста Берегове Берегівського району Закарпаткатону Закарпаткатокої чегарпаткатокоз чегост
  2. ↑ See the report by R. Vrba and A. Wetzler from 1944 in the Dodis database of Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland