Zhidnytsia

Zhidnytsia
Східниця
	Zhidnytsia
Basic data
Oblast :	Lviv Oblast
Rajon :	City district of Boryslaw
Height :	no information
Area :	2.56 km²
Residents :	2,149 (1/1/2011)
Population density :	839 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	82391
Area code :	+380 3248
Geographic location :	49 ° 13 '  N , 23 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '25 "  N , 23 ° 21' 11"  E
KOATUU :	4623055400
Administrative structure :	1 urban-type settlement
Mayor :	Ivan Piljak
Address:	вул. Золота Баня 3 82391 смт. Східниця
Statistical information
Zhidnytsia

Skhidnytsia (Ukrainian Східниця ; Russian Сходница / Skodniza , Polish Schodnica ) is an urban-type settlement in the independent city Boryslaw of Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine .

View of the place

The settlement is about 60 kilometers southwest of Lviv and about 12 kilometers southwest of the main town of Boryslav on the Schidnychanka river.

history

The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in the 16th century and was initially in Poland , came to Austrian Galicia as Schodnica in 1772 and was part of the Polish Republic from 1918 to 1939 (in the powiat Drohobycz, Lemberg Voivodeship ). After the end of the Second World War , the place fell to the Soviet Union, since 1991 it has been part of today's Ukraine. In 1940/1944 the village now called Skodnitsa / Schidnyzja received the status of an urban-type settlement.

The history of the place is strongly influenced by the discovery of mineral and oil wax in 1858. After the discovery, companies from Germany, France, Belgium, England and the USA came to the place and industrial mining began, in 1898 the place was already there 373 oil wells.

synagogue

Wooden synagogue

The only known wooden synagogue in Ukraine that was not destroyed in World War II is located in Schidnyzja . It was built in the late 19th century. The simple structure has 12 windows and was used as a synagogue until the German invasion.

Web links

Commons : Schidnyzja  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gruber, Samuel D., "Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues, and Mass Grave Sites in Ukraine" (2005). Full list of publications from School of Architecture. Paper 94. http://surface.syr.edu/rel/22/