Sambir

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Sambir
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Sambir coat of arms
Sambir (Ukraine)
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Basic data
Oblast : Lviv Oblast
Rajon : District-free city
Height : 295 m
Area : 13.00 km²
Residents : 36,218 (2004)
Population density : 2,786 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 81412
Area code : +380 3236
Geographic location : 49 ° 31 '  N , 23 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '0 "  N , 23 ° 12' 0"  E
KOATUU : 4610900000
Administrative structure : 1 city
Mayor : Yuri Hamar
Address: пл. Ринок 1
81400 м. Самбір
Statistical information
Sambir (Lviv Oblast)
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town hall

Sambir (Ukrainian Самбір ; German Sombor , Polish Sambor , Russian Самбор / Sambor ) is a Ukrainian city ​​with a little over 36,000 inhabitants in the Lviv Oblast .

location

Sambir is located in the Lower Carpathian Plain on the upper reaches of the Dniester River , 74 km southwest of the district capital Lviv , about 40 km east of the Ukrainian border with Poland. The next larger city is Drohobych , the city itself is the district center of the Sambir district of the same name , but administratively not part of it, but directly subordinated to the oblast administration.

history

Sambor was first mentioned in 1199 as part of the principality of Halych-Volhynia .

After the attack by the Golden Horde in 1241, part of the population settled in the current location and founded the place Novyj Sambor ( New Sambor ). The original place was named Staryj Sambor ( Old Sambor ) and still exists today.

In 1340 Sambor came to the Kingdom of Poland , in 1366 it was incorporated into the newly established Ruthenian Voivodeship , as the seat of a powiat Sambor in the Przemyśler Land ( Ziemia Przemyśka ).

In 1387 it came under Hungarian rule for a short time .

Under King Władysław II Jagiełło , Sambor received Magdeburg town charter in 1390 . In the period that followed, numerous German and Jewish residents came to the city.

The city became famous for its salt mines . It was a center of salt production as early as the 14th century .

Sambor, Rynek ( Ring ), 1901

1569–1772 she was part of the Ziemia Lwowska ( Lviv country ) of the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania .

Between 1772 and the end of the First World War it was located in the Austrian crown land Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , here it was designated as the seat of the Sambor District Commission in 1850 , and a district court was added in 1867, both of which existed until 1918.

After the First World War, the city was briefly part of the West Ukrainian People's Republic , but after the non-recognition of the Curzon Line by Poland it belonged to the Polish state until 1939 and was here in the Lviv Voivodeship from 1921 .

During the Second World War , Soviet troops initially occupied the city on the basis of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact , until the city was incorporated into the General Government after the German invasion of the Soviet Union . At the end of the war, they were incorporated into the Ukrainian Union Republic of the USSR , which became a sovereign state in 1991.

Attractions

university
  • Castle ruins (16th century)
  • Church of St. John the Baptist (1530–1568)
  • St. Bernard Monastery (17th century)
  • Brigitten Monastery (17th century)
  • Town hall (17th - 19th centuries)
  • Church of Saint Valentina and Our Lady of Miracles of Sambir (18th century)
  • Town houses on the market (17th - 20th centuries)

economy

As early as the 14th century, the city was a center of salt production . The wood industry is of economic importance .

Sons and daughters

Town twinning

Sambir has a partnership with Oświęcim in Poland.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt of October 8, 1850, No. 383, page 1741