Bilohorschtscha

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Bilohorschtscha ( Ukrainian Білогорща ; Russian Белогорща Belogorschtscha , Polish Biłohorszcze ) is a district in the Zaliznytsia district of the western Ukrainian city ​​of Lviv .

history

The field name Belohoszcz was first mentioned in 1356 when it was assigned to the city of Lviv. The village was founded there in 1423 by the Lemberg citizen Sommerstein . Around the year 1463 7 Ruthenian families lived there in their own colony.

The village initially belonged to the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania , Ruthenian Voivodeship in the Lviv region . When Poland was first partitioned in 1772, the village became part of the new crown land of the Habsburg Empire (from 1804) Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria .

In 1900 the municipality of Biłohorszcze had 149 houses with 1160 inhabitants, of which 1078 Polish-speaking, 43 German-speaking, 37 Ruthenian-speaking, 950 Roman Catholic, 177 Greek Catholic, 7 Jews, 26 of other faiths.

After the end of the Polish-Ukrainian War in 1919, the community became part of Poland . In 1921 it had 674 houses with 4423 inhabitants, of which 3886 Poles, 448 Ruthenians, 86 Germans, 3 other nationalities, 3346 Roman Catholics, 871 Greek Catholics, 126 Protestants, 4 other Christians, 76 Jews (religion).

During the Second World War it 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 . The Poles were resettled after the war.

In 1978 the municipality was finally incorporated into the city of Lviv.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Główny Urząd Statystyczny: Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Tom XIII. Województwo lwowskie . Warszawa 1924 (Polish, online [PDF]).

Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 42 "  N , 23 ° 55 ′ 57"  E