Horodenka

This article is about the city in western Ukraine, for information on the village of the same name in Zhytomyr Oblast, Korostyshiv Raion, see Horodenka (village) .

Horodenka
Городенка
	Horodenka
Basic data
Oblast :	Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Rajon :	Horodenka Raion
Height :	280 m
Area :	55.92 km²
Residents :	9,508 (2009)
Population density :	170 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	78100
Area code :	+380 3430
Geographic location :	48 ° 40 ′  N , 25 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  N , 25 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E
KOATUU :	2621610100
Administrative structure :	1 city
Mayor :	Stepan Jaworskyj
Address:	вул. Шевченка 77 78 100 м. Городенка
Statistical information
Horodenka

Horodenka (Ukrainian Городенка ; Russian Городенка / Gorodenka ) is a city in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in western Ukraine .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1195, in 1668 it was granted Magdeburg city charter, at that time the place was in Poland-Lithuania in the Ruthenian Voivodeship . Armenian merchants turned the city into a trading center at that time. The town's large Armenian church dates from 1706. Since the 16th century, and intensified in the 18th century, there was an influx of the Jewish population, which largely displaced the Armenians from their economic position. In 1743 the landlord Nikolaus Basilius Potocki allowed the Jewish community to live in the city itself. In 1775 there were 863 Jewish families in the village. In 1772 Horodenka came to the Habsburg Monarchy as part of Galicia , from 1850 it was the seat of the district administration Horodenka , in 1867 the seat of a district court was added.

Church in Horodenka

Around 1900 Horodenka had over 11,000 inhabitants, of which 49% were Ruthenians , 37% Jews and 11% Poles . During the First World War , the place was conquered several times by the Russian army . This led to pogroms in the Hasidic community. After the end of Austria-Hungary , Horodenka became Polish again in 1920 , as part of the Stanislau Voivodeship . In 1939 the area was occupied by the Soviet Union due to the Hitler-Stalin Pact .

In July 1941 Horodenka was captured by Hungarian troops in the course of the German-Soviet War , and in September it came under German control. The Jewish population, over 4,000 people, was locked in a ghetto in November . On December 4, 1941, 2,500 Jews were shot by German forces and Ukrainian auxiliary troops and their bodies buried. On April 13, 1943, the occupiers deported 1,500 more people to the Belzec extermination camp , where they were murdered. The ghetto was liquidated by September 6, 1942, and the surviving residents were deported to the Lemberg-Janowska forced labor camp . Only a few were able to escape or survive as partisans in the woods.

Population development

year	Residents
1870	8,824
1880	10,014
1890	11,162
1900	11,613
1910	11,223
1921	9,970
2001	9,794
2005	9,573
2009	9,324

Attractions

• Profane synagogue

Personalities

• Nachman von Horodenka (around 1700 – after 1764), Hasidic rabbi
• Alexander Granach (1890–1945), actor
• Benno Neumann (born January 12, 1901 as Elias Jubal, †?), Director and theater director, founder of “Theater for 49” in Vienna
• Jakob Edelstein (1903–1944), Zionist, first Jewish elder from the Theresienstadt ghetto and Nazi victim
• Salo Flohr (1908–1983), chess grandmaster

Web links

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

• HORODENKA (Gorodenka)
• Article Horodenka in Encyclopedia of Ukraine (English)
• The Book of Horodenka (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rizzi Zannoni, Woiewodztwo Ruskie, Część Krakowskiego, Sędomirskiego Bełzkiego y z y granicami Węgier, Polski, Które gory Karpackie nakształt łańcucha wyciągnione, od góry Wolska aż do Talabry, wyznaczaią .; 1772
2. ^ ^{A b c d} N. M. Gelber: The History of the Jews of Horodenka.
3. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt of October 8, 1850, No. 383, page 1741
4. ↑ Omer Bartov: Erased. Vanishing traces of Jewish Galicia in present-day Ukraine. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2007, ISBN 978-0-691-13121-4 , pp. 101f.