Berestyany

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Berestyany
Берестяни
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Berestjany (Ukraine)
Berestyany
Berestyany
Basic data
Oblast : Lviv Oblast
Rajon : Sambir district
Height : 292 m
Area : 7.315 km²
Residents : 699 (2001)
Population density : 96 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 81422
Area code : +380 3236
Geographic location : 49 ° 36 '  N , 23 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '21 "  N , 23 ° 5' 33"  E
KOATUU : 4624281603
Administrative structure : 1 village
Statistical information
Berestjany (Lviv Oblast)
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Berestjany (Ukrainian Берестяни ; Russian Берестяны , Polish Brześciany ) is a village in the western Ukrainian Lviv Oblast with about 700 inhabitants.

On August 7, 2015, the village became a part of the newly founded rural community Volja-Baranezka (Воле-Баранецька сільська громада / Wole-Baranezka silska hromada ), until then it belonged to the district municipality of Wolja-Baranezka with 7 other villages .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1469. The first mention of the Orthodox Church appeared in 1507.

At first it belonged to the Ruthenian Voivodeship of the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania . Originally it was a private village belonging to the Brześciański family . Since 1619 it belonged to the Birgittenkloster in Sambor .

During the first partition of Poland in 1772 the village became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire (from 1804).

In 1900 the community and the estate had a total of 154 houses with 826 inhabitants, of which 787 were Ruthenian-speaking, 34 were Polish-speaking, 736 were Greek-Catholics, 45 were Roman-Catholics, 43 were Jews and 2 of other faiths.

After the end of the Polish-Ukrainian War in 1919, Berestjany came to Poland. In 1921 the community had 209 houses with 1165 inhabitants, of which 755 Ruthenians, 385 Poles, 25 Jews (nationality), 784 Greek Catholics, 349 Roman Catholics, 32 Jews (religion). In 1938 the Roman Catholic parish Brześciany in the dean's office Sambor in the diocese of Przemyśl comprised 1,124 parishioners, including 389 in Brześciany, 268 in Wolica Polska, 253 in Rakowa (with a chapel), 102 in Rajtarowice, 58 in Rogóźno, 54 in Wola Baraniecka .

In the Second World War , the place belonged first to the Soviet Union and from 1941 to the General Government , from 1945 back to the Soviet Union, now part of the Ukraine .

Attractions

  • Roman Catholic Church, built 1912–1914, since 1920 the parish church.
  • Wooden Orthodox Church, built in 1912;

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Grzegorz Rąkowski: Ukraińskie Karpaty i Podkarpacie, część zachodnia. Przewodnik krajoznawczo-historyczny . Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", Pruszków 2013, ISBN 978-83-62460-31-1 , p. 137 (Polish).
  2. Ludwig Patryn (Ed.): Community encyclopedia of the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrat, edited on the basis of the results of the census of December 31, 1900, XII. Galicia . Vienna 1907.
  3. Główny Urząd Statystyczny: Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Tom XIII. Województwo lwowskie . Warszawa 1924 (Polish, online [PDF]).
  4. Schematyzm Diecezji Przemyskiej Ob [rządku] Łac [inskiego] . Nakładem Kurii Biskupiej Ob. Łac., Przemyśl 1938, p. 133 (Polish, online ).