Mariahilf (Galicia)

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The village of Mariahilf (Ukrainian today Мар'янівка / Marjaniwka or rarely Маріягільф, Polish between 1918 and 1945 Marjówka ) was founded in 1811 in a province of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy and is now a district in the west of the city of Kolomyja in the Oblast administrative unit Ivano-Frankivsk in southwest Ukraine .

The founders were settlers from Karlsberg , a settlement of German-Bohemian colonists in the Radautz district of Bukovina near Putna. From a list of settlers from Karlsberg we know that many settlers came from the western part of the former Prachin district ( southern Bohemia , the main town was today's Strakonice ).

The settlers withdrew from Karlsberg because of conflicts over settlement and working conditions (protocol of May 19 and 20, 1811, Commander of the Remontendepot, Lieutenant Colonel Bukowski von Stolzenburg). In 1811 they signed a purchase agreement for the land in the area of ​​the city of Kolomea. Each of the 33 families received 4 yokes of land, plus 4 yokes of church land free of charge. They called the place "Mariahilf".

Since it was taken over by the Polish administration in 1867, the situation of the resettlers deteriorated more and more. Attempts were made to suppress and polish their origins. After the severe harassment in World War I and after Eastern Galicia was finally transferred to the Poles in 1918, the former German emigrants saw no chance of staying. In 1939, after the invasion of Poland at the beginning of World War II, a German resettlement commission initially arranged for the settlers to be relocated to the Warthegau , but at the beginning of 1945 they fled from the advancing Soviet troops to the Gifhorn area , where the majority of them settled down again.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 33 '  N , 25 ° 0'  E