Hwisdez

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Hwisdez
Гвіздець
Coat of arms of Hwisdez
Hwisdez (Ukraine)
Hwisdez
Hwisdez
Basic data
Oblast : Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Rajon : Kolomyja district
Height : 272 m
Area : 2.22 km²
Residents : 1,931 (January 1, 2011)
Population density : 870 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 78260
Area code : +380 3433
Geographic location : 48 ° 35 '  N , 25 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 34 '43 "  N , 25 ° 16' 53"  E
KOATUU : 2623255200
Administrative structure : 1 urban-type settlement , 1 village
Mayor : Mychajlo Palijchuk
Address: 78260 смт. Гвіздець
Website : www.gvozdets.if.ua
Statistical information
Hwisdez (Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast)
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Hwisdez (Ukrainian Гвіздець ; Russian Гвоздец / Gwosdez , Polish Gwoździec ) is an urban-type settlement in Kolomyja Raion of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in western Ukraine, southeast of the Oblast capital Ivano-Frankivsk .

Monastery church in the place

The settlement council of Hwisdez also includes the village of Beremjany ( Берем'яни ), the city of Kolomyja is located about 20 kilometers southwest, the Chornjawa river flows through the village .

history

The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1373 and initially belonged to the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania (in the Ruthenian Voivodeship ), from 1774 to 1918 it belonged to the Austrian crown land of Galicia under its Polish name of Gwoździec and was the seat of a district administration from 1854 to 1867 , after that the district was divided into the districts of Horodenka, Sniatyn and Kolomea, in the same year a district court for the district of Kolomea was established.

After the end of the First World War, the place became part of Poland (in the Stanislau Voivodeship , Powiat Kołomyja), was occupied by the Soviet Union from 1939 to 1941 during the Second World War and then by Germany until 1944 and was incorporated into the Galicia district.

After the end of the war the place was added to the Soviet Union , there the village came to the Ukrainian SSR and has been part of today's Ukraine since 1991. As early as 1940, Hwisdez was given the status of an urban-type settlement , from 1940 to 1962 the place was the district center of the Hwisdez district of the same name, which was finally divided between the Horodenka , Snjatyn and Kolomyja Rajons .

The Battle of Gwoździec took place near the settlement in 1531 during the Polish-Moldavian War.

synagogue

In the town there was a synagogue built around 1640 and burned down after the invasion of German troops in 1941 , the wooden vault of which was reconstructed in 2014 in the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw .

Personalities

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt for the Empire of Austria. Born in 1854, XXXIX. Piece, No. 111: "Ordinance of the Ministers of the Interior, Justice and Finance of April 24, 1854"
  2. ^ Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt for the Empire of Austria. Year 1867, IX. Piece, No. 17: "Ordinance of the State Ministry of January 23, 1867"