Smiyivka (Beryslaw)
| Smiyivka | |||
| Зміївка | |||
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| Oblast : | Kherson Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Beryslav Raion | ||
| Height : | 43 m | ||
| Area : | 96.839 km² | ||
| Residents : | 2,759 (2004) | ||
| Population density : | 28 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 74300 | ||
| Area code : | +380 5546 | ||
| Geographic location : | 46 ° 52 ' N , 33 ° 35' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 6520681201 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 1 village | ||
| Mayor : | Natalia Vysotska | ||
| Address: | вул. Набережна 16 74372 с. Зміївка |
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Smijiwka (Ukrainian Зміївка ; Russian Змиевка / Smijewka , German formerly Snake Village) is a village in the southern Ukrainian Oblast of Kherson on the right bank of the Dnieper River , about 10 kilometers east of the district capital of Beryslav . The Ukrainian name is derived from the German place name (Змії / Smiji = "snake")
history
Today's village represents the union of the villages Schlangendorf (Smijiwka), Mühlhausendorf (Mychajliwka), Klosterdorf (Kostyrka) and Old Sweden Village ( Staroschwedske ), which were independent until 1915. These were founded between 1782 (Staroschwedske) and 1804; the residents were of German descent except for Altschwedendorf, whose residents came from Sweden.
In 1885 the previously existing wooden church was replaced by a stone building, but the church was closed in 1929. In 1886 the following is recorded for the individual places:
- Old Sweden village: 515 residents in 65 houses, Protestant church and school building
- Monastery village: 773 residents in 52 houses, Catholic church, school building and shops
- Mühlhausendorf: 489 residents in 48 houses, Protestant prayer house and shops
- Snake village: 474 residents in 46 houses, Protestant prayer house and school building
Parts of the German-speaking population were deported to Siberia after the outbreak of World War II in 1941, the places themselves were conquered by the German Wehrmacht on August 26, 1941 . When the Wehrmacht withdrew from the Red Army in 1943, the German and Swedish population were evacuated and most of them were housed in Krotoschin in the Warthegau . In 1945, however, they came under the occupation of the Red Army and some were deported to the Soviet Union to work in the Gulags . The church in the village was converted into a cultural club in 1951 and later served as a warehouse for agricultural manure.
As a result of the Polish-Soviet exchange of territory , former residents of the areas ceded to Poland, predominantly Bojken, were settled in the heavily depopulated place ; they soon made up 80 percent of the total population and made the village one of the largest in the region.
Today there are three churches in the village: a Protestant, a Ukrainian Orthodox and a Greek Catholic church.
Web links
- Forum entry on the history of the districts ( Memento from February 21, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- Map of Schlangendorf, as of 1926-27
Individual evidence
- ↑ Волости и важнейшие селения Европейской России. Выпуск VIII. Saint Petersburg, 1886 (Russian)