Obertyn

Obertyn
Обертин
	Obertyn
Basic data
Oblast :	Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Rajon :	Tlumach district
Height :	no information
Area :	3.06 km²
Residents :	3,118 (2017)
Population density :	1,019 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	78060
Area code :	+380 3479
Geographic location :	48 ° 42 '  N , 25 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 41 '53 "  N , 25 ° 10' 13"  E
KOATUU :	2625655400
Administrative structure :	1 urban-type settlement , 1 village
Address:	вул. Хотимирська 1 78060 смт. Обертин
Website :	City council website
Statistical information
Obertyn

Obertyn ( Ukrainian Обертин ; Russian Обертин Obertin , Polish Obertyn ) is an urban-type settlement in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in western Ukraine with about 3,100 inhabitants (2017).

View of the settlement

Obertyn is located on the regional road -20 P about 50 km southeast of the city of Ivano-Frankivsk and is the administrative center of the settlement council Municipality in the south of the Tlumach Raion with a total of about 4,000 inhabitants that still the village Hontschariw ( Гончарів belongs).

history

Near the village first mentioned in writing in 1416, the Polish military leader Jan Tarnowski won on August 22, 1531 over a Moldovan army under Petru Rareş . Several high burial mounds have been preserved towards the neighboring village of Chotymyr . In 1772 the place became part of the Austrian Galicia , from 1854 to 1867 it was the seat of the Obertyn district, after which a district court for the Horodenka district was established. After the end of the First World War , the place came back under Polish rule and was in the Stanislau Voivodeship , Powiat Horodenka , Gmina Obertyn . In 1939/1945 he became part of the Ukrainian SSR within the Soviet Union .

During the German occupation in 1943, the German occupiers carried out a massacre against the Jewish population of the place, in which they were shot or burned alive in their houses. Only one girl, Christina Carmi , survived the massacre.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Obertyn has been part of the independent Ukraine. The population has not changed significantly in the past 70 years. An agricultural machinery plant was shut down after 1990 . The Roman Catholic Church set up a parish and sent a Polish priest .

Personalities

• Michael Kuchmiak CSsR (1923–2008), Apostolic Exarch for Great Britain of the Greek Catholic Church

Web links

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

• Obertyn . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 7 : Netrebka – Perepiat . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1886, p. 323 (Polish, edu.pl ).
• Obertyn . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 15 , part 2: Januszpol – Wola Justowska . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1902, p. 397 (Polish, edu.pl ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cities and Settlements in Ukraine on pop.stat.mashke.org ; accessed on November 10, 2017
2. ^ Local history Obertyn in the history of the cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR ; accessed on November 11, 2017 (Ukrainian)
3. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt of April 24, 1854, No. 111, page 401
4. ↑ https://www.rbb-online.de/kontraste/archiv/kontraste-vom-16-01-2020/wunsch-nach-beisetzung-in-ehemaligen-zentrationslagern.html , accessed on January 21, 2020