Rechychany

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Rechychany
Речичани
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Rechichany (Ukraine)
Rechychany
Rechychany
Basic data
Oblast : Lviv Oblast
Rajon : Horodok district
Height : 283 m
Area : 14.06 km²
Residents : 578 (2001)
Population density : 41 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 81520
Area code : +380 3231
Geographic location : 49 ° 50 '  N , 23 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 49 '49 "  N , 23 ° 35' 31"  E
KOATUU : 4620987201
Administrative structure : 2 villages
Statistical information
Rechichany (Lviv Oblast)
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Retschytschany ( Ukrainian Речичани ; Russian Речичаны Retschitschany , Polish Rzeczyczany ) is a village in the western Ukrainian Lviv Oblast with about 580 inhabitants.

It belongs with the village of Lisnowytschi ( Лісновичі ) to the district council of the same name .

history

The place was first mentioned in the 14th century. In 1515 it was mentioned as Rzecziczany . The name is derived either from the word rzeczyca (former river bed) or from mała rzeka ( small river ).

It initially belonged to the Lviv region in the Ruthenian Voivodeship of the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania . During the first partition of Poland in 1772 the village became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire (from 1804).

In 1900 the municipality of Rzeczyczany had 125 houses with 755 inhabitants, 700 of them Ruthenian-speaking, 29 Polish-speaking, 26 German-speaking, 691 Greek-Catholic, 31 Roman-Catholic, 16 Jews, 17 of other faiths.

After the end of the Polish-Ukrainian War in 1919, the community became part of Poland. In 1921 the municipality of Rzeczyczany had 149 houses with 870 inhabitants, including 795 Ruthenians, 69 Poles, 5 Jews (nationality), 1 other nationality, 808 Greek Catholics, 56 Roman Catholics, 5 Jews (religion), 1 other Christian.

In the Second World War , the place belonged first to the Soviet Union and from 1941 to the General Government , from 1945 back to the Soviet Union, now part of the Ukraine .

Hartfeld

In 1783 in the course of the Josephine colonization , German colonists of the Lutheran denomination were settled on the grounds of the village. The colony was named Hartfeld and became an independent parish. The Protestants founded a Lutheran parish in the Evangelical Superintendentur AB Galizien with the branch communities Neu-Burschitz , Alt-Jazow , Neu-Kupnowitz , Moosberg and Schumlau . In 1814 a prayer house was built. In 1875 there were 420 Protestants and one school in Hartfeld.

In 1900 the Hartfeld community had 72 houses with 539 inhabitants, 465 of them German-speaking, 74 Ruthenian-speaking, 77 Greek-Catholic, 39 Jews, 423 of other faiths.

In 1921 the Hartfeld community had 71 houses with 462 inhabitants, of which 299 were Germans, 115 Ruthenians, 29 Poles, 19 Jews (nationality), 298 Protestant, 116 Greek-Catholic, 29 Poles, 19 Jews (religion).

On May 24, 1939, the name Hartfeld was changed to Turczyn .

Personalities

  • Oskar Wagner (1906–1989), German Protestant theologian and church historian

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Anna Czapla: Nazwy miejscowości historycznej ziemi lwowskiej [The names of the villages in the historical Lviv region] . Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego Jana Pawła II, Lublin 2011, ISBN 978-83-7306-542-0 , p. 173 (Polish).
  2. a b Ludwig Patryn (ed.): Community encyclopedia of the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrat, edited on the basis of the results of the census of December 31, 1900, XII. Galicia . Vienna 1907.
  3. a b Główny Urząd Statystyczny: Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Tom XIII. Województwo lwowskie . Warszawa 1924 (Polish, online [PDF]).
  4. Henryk Lepucki: Działalność kolonizacyjna Marii Teresy i Józefa II w Galicji 1772-1790: z 9 tablicami i MAPA . Kasa im. J. Mianowskiego, Lwów 1938, p. 163-165 (Polish, online ).
  5. Schematism of the Evangelical Church in Augsb. and Helvet. Confession in the kingdoms and countries represented in the Austrian Imperial Council . Vienna 1875, p. 207-209 ( online ).
  6. MP z 1939 r. No. 118, poz. 279. (Polish, PDF; 38.6 kB).