Uhry (Ukraine)

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Uhry
Угри
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Uhry (Ukraine)
Uhry
Uhry
Basic data
Oblast : Lviv Oblast
Rajon : Horodok district
Height : 285 m
Area : 2.17 km²
Residents : 1,134 (2001)
Population density : 523 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 81553
Area code : +380 3231
Geographic location : 49 ° 44 '  N , 23 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 43 '48 "  N , 23 ° 36' 40"  E
KOATUU : 4620988001
Administrative structure : 4 villages
Address: 81553 с. Угри
Statistical information
Uhry (Lviv Oblast)
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Uhry ( Ukrainian Угри ; Russian Угры Ugry , Polish Uherce Niezabitowskie ) is a village in the western Ukrainian Lviv Oblast with about 1130 inhabitants.

It belongs with the villages of Stodilky , Tscherljanske Peredmistja ( Черлянське Передмістя ) and Tscherljany to the district council of the same name .

history

The place was mentioned in a document in 1427 as Wangercze and later as Uhercze (1578). The name is ethnically derived from Magyars , the adjective Niezabitowskie was derived from the noble Niezabitowski family , who ruled the village from the late 16th century until 1939.

The place initially belonged to the Lviv region in the Ruthenian Voivodeship of the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania .

During the first partition of Poland in 1772 the village became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire (from 1804).

In 1900 the municipality of Uherce Niezabitowskie had 258 houses with 1,341 inhabitants, of which 1205 were Ruthenian-speaking, 121 Polish-speaking, 15 German-speaking, 1189 Greek-Catholic, 111 Roman-Catholic, 41 Jews.

After the end of the Polish-Ukrainian War in 1919, the community became part of Poland. In 1921 it had 284 houses with 1472 inhabitants, including 1075 Ruthenians, 367 Poles, 30 Jews (nationality), 1184 Greek Catholics, 237 Roman Catholics, 51 Jews (religion).

In the Second World War , the place belonged first to the Soviet Union and from 1941 to the General Government , from 1945 back to the Soviet Union, now part of the Ukraine .

Attractions

  • Orthodox Church (built in 1868);
  • Neo-Gothic burial chapel by Włodzimierz Niezabitowski (1872);

Built in the 1860s, the palace was destroyed during or shortly after World War II.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anna Czapla: Nazwy miejscowości historycznej ziemi lwowskiej [The names of the localities of the historical Lviv country] . Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego Jana Pawła II, Lublin 2011, ISBN 978-83-7306-542-0 , p. 197 (Polish).
  2. 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.
  3. Główny Urząd Statystyczny: Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Tom XIII. Województwo lwowskie . Warszawa 1924 (Polish, online [PDF]).
  4. Grzegorz Rąkowski: Przewodnik po Ukrainie Zachodniej. Część III. Ziemia Lwowska . Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", Pruszków 2007, ISBN 978-83-8918866-3 , p. 464 (Polish).