Chyriw

Chyriw
Хирів
	Chyriw
Basic data
Oblast :	Lviv Oblast
Rajon :	Staryj Sambir district
Height :	no information
Area :	3.43 km²
Residents :	4,595 (2004)
Population density :	1,340 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	82061
Area code :	+380 3244
Geographic location :	49 ° 32 '  N , 22 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '54 "  N , 22 ° 50' 56"  E
KOATUU :	4625110700
Administrative structure :	1 city
Address:	82060 м. Хирів
Statistical information
Chyriw

Chyriw ( Ukrainian Хирів ; Russian Хыров Chyrow , Polish Chyrów ) is a city in western Ukraine on the Polish-Ukrainian border .

Downtown view

Before the Second World War there was a Jesuit college in the city . The graduates of this college were u. a. the Polish politician and economist Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski and regional studies expert Mieczysław Orłowicz . Jaroslav Hašek is said to have lived in the college . The college also had a large and valuable library. After the German invasion in 1941, the library was closed. The Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz is said to have worked on the categorization of the books during the dissolution . After the Second World War, the college became a barracks. There is a former Catholic church in the village, which was renovated in 2006.

Web links

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

• Chyrów . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 1 : Aa-Dereneczna . Sulimierskiego and Walewskiego, Warsaw 1880, p. 669 (Polish, edu.pl ).