Roschyshche

Roschyshche
Рожище
	Roschyshche
Basic data
Oblast :	Volyn Oblast
Rajon :	Roschyshche Raion
Height :	no information
Area :	10.07 km²
Residents :	13,511 (2004)
Population density :	1,342 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	45100
Area code :	+380 8268
Geographic location :	50 ° 54 ′  N , 25 ° 15 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  N , 25 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  E
KOATUU :	724510100
Administrative structure :	1 city
Mayor :	Serhiy Samlynnyj
Address:	вул. Незалежності 60 45 100 м. Рожище
Statistical information
Roschyshche

Rozhysche (Ukrainian and Russian Рожище Russian transcribed Roschischtsche ; Polish Rozyszcze ) is a small Ukrainian town with a little over 13,000 inhabitants. It lies on the River Styx in the Oblast Volyn region , southeast of the city of Kovel and few kilometers from the district capital of Lutsk .

Church in place

history

The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1377, over the centuries a multiethnic place developed, and the Wolhynian Germans also played their part. Between 1920 and 1939 Roschyschtsche belonged to Poland . As a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact , the Soviet Union occupied the area, after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the place was under German rule until 1944, came back to the Soviet Union after the Second World War and was incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR . On August 31, 1989, it was granted city status, and since 1991 it has belonged to today's Ukraine.

literature

• Walter Kuhn : Thirteen community reports of the Wolhynien-German parish Roshischtsche, 1878–1902 . Historical Society in Wartheland, 1940.
• Rożyszcze , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , pp. 667f.

Web links

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

• Rożyszcze . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 9 : Poźajście – Ruksze . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1888, p. 875 (Polish, edu.pl ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Президія Верховної Ради Української РСР; Постанова від 08/31/1989 № 8030-XI Про віднесення селища міського типу Рожище Волинської облинської облинської облинської облинської облинської