Shchyrez

This article is about the urban-type settlement in Ukraine, for information on the river of the same name in Ukraine, see Shchyrez (river) .

Shchyrez
Щирець
	Shchyrez
Basic data
Oblast :	Lviv Oblast
Rajon :	Pustomyty Raion
Height :	270 m
Area :	2.49 km²
Residents :	5,496 (2004)
Population density :	2,207 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	81160
Area code :	+380 3230
Geographic location :	49 ° 39 '  N , 23 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 38 '50 "  N , 23 ° 51' 25"  E
KOATUU :	4623655500
Administrative structure :	1 urban-type settlement, 16 villages
Mayor :	Mychajlo Brodych
Address:	81160 смт. Щирець
Statistical information
Shchyrez

Schyrez (Ukrainian Щирець ; Russian Щирец / Schtschirez , Polish Szczerzec ) is an urban-type settlement in the Pustomyty Raion of Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine on the Shchyrka River.

View of houses in the village

Until 2017, the settlement community also included the villages of Dubjanka , Odynoke , Serdyzja and Schufrahanka , on October 29, 2017 the village became the center of the newly established settlement community Shchyrez (Щирецька селищна громаnaда / Schchyrezka Selyschthe ) 16 villages Dmytre (Дмитре) Dubjanka (Дуб'янка) Jastrubkiw (Яструбків) Horbatschi (Горбачі) Humenez (Гуменець) Lany (Лани) Ljopy (Льопи) Nykonkowytschi (Никонковичі) Odynoke , Pisky (Піски) , Popeljany (Попеляни) Schufrahanka (Шуфраганка) Serdyzja (Сердиця) Sokoliwka , Soroky (Сороки) and Cherkassy (Черкаси).

After the Second World War , the villages of Rosenberg and Sahorodky (Загородки, Polish Zagródki ) were incorporated.

The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1125 and received Magdeburg town charter in 1397 . The city at that time belonged to Austrian Galicia from 1774 to 1918 and was the seat of the Szczerzec district administration from 1854 to 1867 and then from 1867 to 1918 the seat of a district court for the Lviv district . After the end of the First World War , the place came to Poland , lost its town charter during this time, was briefly occupied by the Soviet Union during World War II and then by Germany until 1944 .

After the end of the war, the city was added to the Soviet Union , where the city came to the Ukrainian SSR and has been part of today's Ukraine since 1991.

The distance to the northeastern Lviv is about 24 kilometers, the Lviv – Stryj – Chop railway runs through the town with two stops in Shchyrez.

Rosenberg

The German-speaking village of Rosenberg was founded in 1786 as one of the ancestral settlements of the Galician Germans by Mennonites and is located in the southwest of today's local area of ​​Schtschyrez. The two-line row settlement was laid out for 12 families, in 1934 the village had around 50 inhabitants. The Mennonites were also settled in neighboring colonies of Falkenstein and Einsiedel .

In 1900 the municipality of Rosenberg had 15 houses with 81 inhabitants, of which 53 were German-speaking, 24 Ruthenian-speaking, 4 Polish-speaking, 24 Greek-Catholic, 4 Roman-Catholic, 53 of other faiths.

In 1921 the community had 26 houses with 204 inhabitants, of which 69 Germans, 56 Ruthenians, 51 Poles, 26 Jews (nationality), 2 other nationalities, 70 Protestant, 57 Greek Catholic, 45 Roman Catholic, 32 Jews (religion) .

During the Second World War, the majority of the German residents were resettled in Wartheland, the remaining German-speaking residents were expelled after the end of the war, and the Protestant cemetery has been falling into disrepair ever since.

Personalities

• Leon Löwenkopf (1892–1966), German-Jewish social democrat and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
• Stanisław Maczek (1892–1994), Polish general
• David Neumark (1866–1924), Jewish religious philosopher
• Joseph ben Meir Theomim (1727–1792), rabbi and rabbi

Web links

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

• Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of the History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian)
• Szczerzec . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 11 : Sochaczew – Szlubowska Wola . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1890, p. 851 (Polish, edu.pl ).
• Information on the Galician-German settlement Rosenberg
• Impressions from Szczerzec (Scyrec ', Shchirets), Ukraine, Lemberg district (PDF; 383 kB). Aid Committee of the Galiziendeutschen eV Publication from June 2012. Accessed on December 16, 2016.
• Impressions from the former Ostrów (belongs to Scyrec), Lemberg district, Ukraine (PDF; 318 kB). Aid Committee of the Galiziendeutschen eV Publication from October 2012. Accessed on December 16, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Відповідно до Закону України "Про добровільне об'єднання територіальних громад" україни ор Львівськістуівімад "урімад україни ор Львівськісй ор івівськісй уі івівськісту івівськистусумамад" уто Львівськісй ор івівськісй ор івівськісту інвівськісту інвівськисо уівім
2. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt of April 24, 1854, No. 111, page 401
3. ↑ 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.
4. ↑ Główny Urząd Statystyczny: Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Tom XIII. Województwo lwowskie . Warszawa 1924 (Polish, online ).