Welyki Mosty

Welyki Mosty
Великі Мости
	Welyki Mosty
Basic data
Oblast :	Lviv Oblast
Rajon :	Sokal district
Height :	211 m
Area :	7.91 km²
Residents :	5,924 (2004)
Population density :	749 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	80075
Area code :	+380 3231
Geographic location :	50 ° 14 '  N , 24 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 14 '29 "  N , 24 ° 8' 17"  E
KOATUU :	4624810600
Administrative structure :	1 city, 11 villages
Mayor :	Natalija Domashovets
Address:	вул.Шевченка 6 80074 м. Великі Мости
Statistical information
Welyki Mosty

Monument to the memory of the Shoah

Remains of the synagogue in Velyki Mosty

Welyki Mosty ( Ukrainian Великі Мости ; Russian Великие Мосты Velikije Mosty , Polish Mosty Wielkie , German Groß-Mosty ) is a town on the banks of the Rata in western Ukraine with about 6,000 inhabitants. The oblast capital Lviv is located about 47 kilometers south of Velyki Mosty.

On 29 October 2017, the city became the center of the newly established municipality Velyki Mosty ( Великомостівська міська громада Welykomostiwska miska hromada ), this includes also the 11 villages Borowe ( Борове ) Butyny ( Бутини ) Dwirzi , Kulytschkiw ( Куличків ) Piddowhe ( Піддовге ) Prystan ( Пристань ) Reklynez ( Реклинець ), Sarika ( Заріка ) Schyschaky ( Шишаки ) Stremin ( Стремінь ) and Wolyzja ( Волиця ), until then it formed together with the villages Borowe and Kulytschkiw the city council community Velyki Mosty .

history

The city was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1472 and received Magdeburg city rights in 1549 . It was initially in the Ruthenian Voivodeship as part of the aristocratic republic of Poland . From 1772 to 1918 it belonged to the Austrian Galicia and from 1854 to 1867 was the seat of a district authority . Since 1846 the place has been a garrison town , after the end of the First World War the place came to Poland , was briefly occupied by the Soviet Union during World War II and then by Germany until 1944 .

About 1,250 Jews lived in Mosty Wielkie in the 1930s, that was more than a third of the population. After the German occupation in 1941, the first massacres by Germans and Ukrainians occurred. In August 1942, a forced ghetto, which was initially still open, was ordered. At the end of 1942, Jews from the surrounding area were ordered to the ghetto, which at that time comprised over 4,000 forced laborers. Between February and May 1943, the ghetto inmates were murdered in several local actions, and a small number were transferred to the Lemberg-Janowska forced labor camp .

After the end of the war, the city was added to the Soviet Union, where it became part of the Ukrainian SSR . After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Velyki Mosty became part of independent Ukraine.

Turpentine production has been important for the city since the 19th century , which is mainly based on the pine species that grows around the place.

Personalities

• Siegfried Weyr (1890–1963), Austrian painter
• Andrew Roborecki (1910–1982), Ukrainian-Canadian bishop
• Zdenko Paumgartten (born November 24, 1903, † October 27, 1984 Salzburg), Austrian infantry general, from 1961 to 1968 commander of Group III in Salzburg
• Hubertus von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (1909–1943), German officer, died on November 26, 1943 in a plane crash near Groß-Mosty
• Jerzy Czarnecki, b. Isaac Steger (1924–2007), Polish-Swiss nuclear physicist, honorary citizen of Welyki Mosty, builder of the Schoáh Monument in 'Babki Forest'

See also

Synagogue in Welyki Mosty

literature

• Mosty Wielkie. In: Guy Miron (ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust. Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , pp. 500f.
• Jerzy Czarnecki: My life as an “Aryan”. Jewish family history in Poland at the time of the Schoáh and as a forced laborer in Germany. Edited by Prof. Dr. Erhard Roy Wiehn. Hartung-Gorre Verlag, Konstanz 2002, 2nd edition 2007, ISBN 3-89649-815-0 .
• Jerzy Czarnecki: My Life as an "Aryan". From Velyki Mosty through Zhovkva to Stralsund. Edited by Prof. Dr. Erhard Roy Wiehn. Hartung-Gorre Publishers, Konstanz 2006 - Yad Vashem endorsement, ISBN 3-89649-998-X .

Web links

Commons : Welyki Mosty  - collection of images

• Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of the History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian)
• Mosty Wielkie . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 6 : Malczyce – Netreba . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1885, p. 715 (Polish, edu.pl ).

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Rizzi Zannoni, Woiewodztwo Ruskie, Część Krakowskiego, Sędomirskiego Bełzkiego y z y granicami Węgier, Polski, Które gory Karpackie nakształt łańcucha wyciągnione, od góry Wolska aż do Talabry, wyznaczaią .; 1772 ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.