Bereschany

This article is about the city in Ukraine, for information on the village of the same name in Ukraine in Lviv Oblast, see Bereschany (village) .

Bereschany
Бережани
	Bereschany
Basic data
Oblast :	Ternopil Oblast
Rajon :	District-free city
Height :	289 m
Area :	5.8 km²
Residents :	17,130 (2004)
Population density :	2,953 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	47505
Area code :	+380 3548
Geographic location :	49 ° 27 '  N , 24 ° 56'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '42 "  N , 24 ° 56' 17"  E
KOATUU :	6120410100
Administrative structure :	1 city , 3 villages
Mayor :	Stepan Tokarskyj
Address:	пл. Ринок 1 47501 м. Бережани
Statistical information
Bereschany

Bereschany ( Ukrainian Бережани ; German until the 1880s Brzeżan or Germanized Breschan , Armenian Armenian Բերեժան , Russian Бережаны , Polish Brzeżany ) is a town in the Ternopil Oblast in Ukraine , about 100 km from Lviv and 50 km from Ternopil . The city is the center of the raion of the same name , but is administratively not part of it. It has about 17,000 inhabitants and is about 280 m above sea level.

View of the place

On November 2, 2018, the city became the center of the newly founded municipality of Bereschany ( Бережанська міська громада Bereschanska miska hromada ). This also includes the 3 villages Lisnyky ( Лісники ), Possuchiw ( Посухів ) and Raj ( Рай ). Before that, it formed the town council of the same name with the villages of Lisnyky and Raj . The city is located on the banks of the Solota Lypa , north of the city is the Solota Lypa reservoir . Temperatures drop to −35 ° C in winter and rise to +40 ° C in summer.

Tarnopol Voivodeship until 1939, location of the city

Reconstruction of the Bereschany Castle

history

The first written mention of the city comes from 1374 as a settlement of Ruthenia . Bereschany belonged to Poland from the 14th to the 18th century . The town charter according to Magdeburg law was granted to the settlement on March 19, 1530 by King Sigismund I.

The location on the way from Lviv to Terebovlya had a favorable effect on the development of the village. But this also required the interest of others, so that in 1534 Mikolaj Synjawsky began building a castle, which was completed in 1554. This castle was able to withstand all attacks until 1648. In that year Cossacks successfully raided the city and in 1655 the Swedes. From 1675 to 1676 violent battles took place against the Turks.

At the end of the 17th century there were almost 8,000 inhabitants in Bereschany. From the first Polish partition (1772) Bereschany belonged to the Crown Land of Galicia of the Austro-Hungarian Habsburg Empire until 1918 and from 1850 it was the seat of the district administration of the Brzeżany district , in 1867 the seat of the district court was added. From 1919 to 1939 it belonged to Poland again and from 1921 was in the Tarnopol Voivodeship .

In 1805, a grammar school was built in Bereschany, which as a graduate a. a. Włodzimierz Bednarski , Franz Kokovsky , Bohdan Lepkyj , Rudolf Moch , Kornel Ujejski , Ruslan Schaschkewytsch , Edward Rydz-Śmigły and others. The connection to the rail network took place in 1894 on the line to Tarnopol . 10,610 inhabitants inhabited the place in 1900.

During the First World War , the site was the theater of the First Battle of Brzeżany , which took place on August 26, 1914, and the Second Battle of Brzeżany , which took place from June 29 to July 3, 1917 .

After the collapse of the Danube Monarchy at the end of the First World War in November 1918, the city was briefly part of the West Ukrainian People's Republic . In the Polish-Ukrainian War , Poland occupied the last parts of the West Ukrainian People's Republic in July 1919. On November 21, 1919, the High Council of the Paris Peace Conference awarded Eastern Galicia to Poland.

The city was under district administration until May 13, 2015 and was placed under oblast administration from that day.

Education and economy

There are four high schools and one high school. A brick factory, a furniture factory and a glassworks are of economic importance.

Attractions

The pentagonal castle of Bereschany, completed in 1554, a park from the 17th century and the Church of St. Nicholas (1691) are architecturally significant.

Personalities

• Aleksander Brückner (1856–1939), Slavist
• Aleksander Frączkiewicz (1910–1994), Polish musicologist and teacher
• Johann Eduard Hofmokl (1840–1900), Austrian surgeon
• Edward Kofler (1911–2007), Polish-Swiss mathematician
• Olena Kultschyzka (1877–1967), graphic artist and painter
• Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), Polish-Jewish lawyer and peace researcher, prosecutor in Bereschany in the 1930s
• Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886–1941), Polish politician, Marshal of Poland, painter and poet

partnership

There is a city partnership with the Polish city ​​of Kluczbork .

See also

• Bereschany Jewish Community

Web links

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

• private site about the place
• Bereschany Castle
• Russian map of the city and the surrounding area
• Gallery of old photographs and postcards

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Landesgesetzblatt Galizien, year 1885, No. 3 "Law whereby the municipalities of Brzeżan, Stanislau, Przemysl and Rzeszow are granted permission to collect further pavement tolls"
2. ↑ Відповідно до Закону України "Про добровільне об'єднання територіальних громад" у Тернопільській області на територіях Беренжанського району та Бережанської міськради Посухівська сільська рада Бережанського району рішенням від 2 листопада 2018
3. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt of October 8, 1850, No. 383, page 1741
4. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 05/13/2015 № 398-VIII Про віднесення міста Бережани Бережанського району Тернопілльсько оегластї