Schwyrka

Schwyrka
Жвирка
	Schwyrka
Basic data
Oblast :	Lviv Oblast
Rajon :	Sokal district
Height :	no information
Area :	2.18 km²
Residents :	3,710 (1/1/2011)
Population density :	1,702 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	80040
Area code :	+380 3257
Geographic location :	50 ° 28 '  N , 24 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '54 "  N , 24 ° 15' 24"  E
KOATUU :	4624855300
Administrative structure :	1 urban-type settlement, 1 village
Mayor :	Ivan Koshlaj
Address:	вул. Мазепи 41 80040 смт. Жвирка
Statistical information
Schwyrka

Schwyrka (Ukrainian Жвирка ; Russian Schwirka , Polish Ż Wirka ) is an urban-type settlement in Sokal Raion of Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine .

View of the monastery building in the village

The settlement is located about 73 kilometers north of Lviv and about 2 kilometers southwest of the Rajons capital Sokal on the Bug River. In addition to Schwyrka, the village of Sawyshen (Завишень) also belongs to the settlement council of the same name .

history

The place was created after 1884, when a station on the railway line from Jaroslau to Sokal (today's Jarosław – Kowel line ) was opened. Initially this was still in Austrian Galicia and from 1918 to 1939, as a left bank district of Sokal, it was part of the Polish Republic (in the Powiat Sokal, Lemberg Voivodeship ). During the German occupation from 1939, the area came under the Generalgouvernement (District Headquarters Hrubieszow, Lublin District). During this time Ż Wirka also officially became independent as a village, in the municipality register for the General Government the place is assigned to the rural municipality Krystynopol. After the end of the Second World War , the place fell back to Poland, but after an exchange of territory then to the Soviet Union in 1951, since 1991 it has been part of today's Ukraine. In 1956 the village, now called Schwirka / Schwyrka, received the status of an urban-type settlement.

In the local area there are also the remains of a St. Bernard monastery from the 17th century. After it was last used as a prison, it burned down on March 27, 2012, so that today only the foundation walls remain.

Personalities

• Jan Ostroróg , castellan of Poznan, is buried in the monastery cemetery

Web links

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

• Information about the Bernardine monastery

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Community and Village Directory for the General Government (1943)