Sinkiw (village)

Sinkiw (village)

Зіньків

Sinkiw (village)

Basic data

Oblast :

Khmelnytskyi Oblast

Rajon :

Winkivtsi district

Height :

200 m

Area :

6.867 km²

Residents :

1,686 (2001)

Population density :

246 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

32514

Area code :

+380 3846

Geographic location :

49 ° 6 ' N , 27 ° 5' E Coordinates: 49 ° 5 '37 " N , 27 ° 4' 30" E

KOATUU :

6820683501

Administrative structure :

2 villages

Address:

вул. Писаренка 46
32514 с. Зіньків

Website :

City council website

Statistical information

Sinkiw (village)

Sinkiw (Ukrainian Зіньків ; Russian Зиньков / Sinkow , Polish Zińków ) is a village in the Ukrainian Oblast Khmelnyzkyj with about 1700 inhabitants (2012).

View of the village from the fortress ruins

geography

Sinkiw is the administrative center of the eponymous, 60.932 km² district council in the west of Winkiwzi Rajon , to which the southeastern village of Stanislaviwka ( Станіславівка , ⊙ ) with about 700 inhabitants belongs.

The village lies on the banks of the Uschyzja ( Ушиця ), a 122 km long left tributary of the Dniester , 16 km northwest of the Rajonzentrum Vinkivtsi and about 50 km south of the Oblastzentrum Khmelnitsky .

Territorial road T-23-15 runs through the village .

history

The village, first mentioned in writing in 1404, received the status of a city under Magdeburg law in 1458 , which was confirmed by the Polish King Sigismund I in 1522 . In 1450 , a castle was built to protect against attacks by the Tatars . The well-fortified settlement was one of the largest cities in Podolia in the 16th century with 1385 residents in 275 households (1578) . As the city developed economically, the population increased to 3491 inhabitants in 557 households by 1790 and at the end of the 19th century there were 4842 inhabitants in 611 households.

Between July 10, 1941 and March 27, 1944 the village was occupied by the German Reich . During the occupation , around 1,500 Jewish citizens were shot and 312 residents were deported to Germany.