Bohorodchany

Bohorodchany

Богородчани

Bohorodchany

Basic data

Oblast :

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Rajon :

Bohorodchany Raion

Height :

333 m

Area :

12.00 km²

Residents :

7,464 (2004)

Population density :

622 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

77700

Area code :

+380 3471

Geographic location :

48 ° 48 ' N , 24 ° 32' E Coordinates: 48 ° 48 '28 " N , 24 ° 32' 17" E

KOATUU :

2620455100

Administrative structure :

1 urban-type settlement

Mayor :

Bohdan Kleban

Address:

вул. Шевченка 68
77 700 смт. Богородчани

Statistical information

Bohorodchany

Bohorodchany (Ukrainian Богородчани ; Russian Богородчаны / Bogorodchany , Polish Bohorodczany ) is located in the West Ukraine urban-type about 18 km southwest of the Oblasthauptstadt Ivano-Frankiwsk the river Bystrytsia River Solotwynska (Бистриця Солотвинська) located.

Church in place

history

The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1441. After the First Partition of Poland , it belonged to Austrian Galicia from 1772 to 1918 . From 1854 to 1918 it was the seat of the district administration for the Bohorodczany district , and in 1867 a district court was added. After the end of the First World War , the place came to the newly founded Poland and was here from 1921 in the Stanislau Voivodeship . In 1939, at the beginning of the Second World War , Bohorodczany was first occupied by the Soviet Union . After the attack on the Soviet Union , it was under German occupation from 1941 to 1944 . During this time the large Jewish community of Bohorodczany was deported to the concentration camps and most of them were murdered .

In 1945 the city came back to the Soviet Union , where it became part of the Ukrainian SSR and has been part of the independent Ukraine since 1991.

Personalities

Anton von Kalik (1818–1866), first head of the Austro-Hungarian intelligence service

Web links

Commons : Bohorodchany - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Ukrainian)
Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of the History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian)
Bohorodczany . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 1 : Aa-Dereneczna . Sulimierskiego and Walewskiego, Warsaw 1880, p. 287 (Polish, edu.pl ).