Kamin-Kaschyrskyj

Kamin-Kaschyrskyj

Камінь-Каширський

Kamin-Kaschyrskyj

Basic data

Oblast :

Volyn Oblast

Rajon :

Kamin-Kashyrskyi district

Height :

no information

Area :

7.64 km²

Residents :

10,609 (2004)

Population density :

1,389 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

44500

Area code :

+380 3357

Geographic location :

51 ° 37 ' N , 24 ° 58' E Coordinates: 51 ° 37 '27 " N , 24 ° 57' 37" E

KOATUU :

721410100

Administrative structure :

1 city, 2 villages

Address:

вул. Волі 2
44500 м. Камінь-Каширський

Statistical information

Kamin-Kaschyrskyj

Kamin-Kaschyrskyj ( Ukrainian Камінь-Каширський ; Russian Камень-Каширский Kamen -Kaschirski , Polish Kamień Koszyrski ) is a Ukrainian city with a little over 10,000 inhabitants. It is the administrative center of the raion of the same name and is located in the Volyn Oblast between the southern city of Kovel and the border with Belarus .

Administration building in place

The municipality also includes the 2 villages Oleksijiwka ( Олексіївка ) and Pidzyrja ( Підцир'я ).

history

In 1196 Koschirsk ( Коширськ ) was first mentioned under Prince Roman of Volhynia .

Church of the Holy Mother of God

1341 Kosher came to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . There it belonged to the Principality of Ratno from around the end of the 14th century . In 1430 it got city rights according to Magdeburg law . In 1569 it came to Poland with the Union of Lublin . In 1628 the Dominican monastery was built under Adam Alexander Sanguszko . After his death, the city passed to the Kosicki family .

In 1795 Kamen Kaschirskij came to Russia after the Third Partition of Poland . There it went to the Orda family . In 1832 the monastery was closed. During the First World War in 1916, the place got a connection to the railway network (today's Kowel – Kamin-Kaschyrskyj railway ), at the same time a connection to the narrow-gauge network to Janów / Polesia was created, which existed until the Second World War .

From 1921 Kamień Kaszyrski belonged again to Poland . There it belonged to the powiat Kamień Koszyrski in the Polesian Voivodeship . In 1923 it became the seat of a Starost . As a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact , the Soviet Union occupied the area and established the Kamen-Kashirsky district in 1940 . After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the place was under German rule until 1944, then came back to the Soviet Union after the Second World War and has been part of Ukraine since 1991 .

Attractions

Chapel of the former Dominican monastery

Archangel Michael Church

former Dominican monastery (built 1628)
Prophet Elijah Church (built 1700)
Church of the Holy Mother of God Mary (built 1723)
Remains of the medieval castle complex (12th century)
Memorial to the Jews killed in the ghetto

Web links

Commons : Kamin-Kaschyrskyj - collection of images, videos and audio files

Kamień Koszyrski . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 3 : Haag – Kępy . Sulimierskiego and Walewskiego, Warsaw 1882, p. 735 (Polish, edu.pl ).