Volodymyr-Wolynskyi

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Volodymyr-Wolynskyi
Володимир-Волинський
Coat of arms of Wolodymyr-Wolynskyj
Wolodymyr-Wolynskyj (Ukraine)
Volodymyr-Wolynskyi
Volodymyr-Wolynskyi
Basic data
Oblast : Volyn Oblast
Rajon : District-free city
Height : no information
Area : 16.47 km²
Residents : 38,111 (2005)
Population density : 2,314 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 44700
Area code : +380 3342
Geographic location : 50 ° 51 '  N , 24 ° 19'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 50 '44 "  N , 24 ° 18' 50"  E
KOATUU : 710200000
Administrative structure : 1 city
Mayor : Petro Sahanyuk
Address: вул. Д. Галицького 5
44700 м. Володимир-Волинський
Website : http://www.volodymyrrada.gov.ua/
Statistical information
Volodymyr-Wolynskyj (Volyn Oblast)
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Wolodymyr-Wolynskyj ( Ukrainian Володимир-Волинський ; Russian Владимир-Волынский Wladimir-Wolynski , Polish Włodzimierz , German rarely Wladimir Wolinsk ) is a city in the Wolyn Oblast of Ukraine with about 38,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Wolodymyr-Wolynskyj Rajons of the same name , but administratively not part of it.

geography

Location in Volyn Oblast

The city lies on the edge of the northwestern foothills of the Volhyn Mountains, on the right bank of the Luha River .

The distances to larger cities are: 550 km to Kiev , 150 km to Lviv , 75 km to Lutsk and 50 km to Kovel . 15 km to the west is the border with Poland and 100 km to the north is the border with Belarus .

The N 22 road runs through the village from Ustyluh to Lutsk and Rivne .

population

39 different nationalities live in the city:

Population development

  • 1989: 38,263 (census)
  • 2001: 38,256 (census)
  • 2005: 38,256 (census)
  • 2013: 38,894

The number of unemployed is 1,180.

history

middle Ages

Vladimir the Great

The place was supposedly mentioned for the first time in 884 as Ladomir , 988 as Volodimir . From the end of the 10th century until 1336 it was temporarily the capital of the Old Russian Principality of Volhynia (or Lodomeria ) and later under the Grand Duke Roman , who had ruled since 1170, of the united principalities of Halych-Volhynia from 1199 . Around 1240 the principality became dependent on the Mongols.

Vladimir had been the seat of an Orthodox diocese since the middle of the 12th century. Metropolitan Theognostus had his seat here in the 14th century.

In 1349 the city was taken over by the Polish King Casimir III. conquered. In 1431 she received the Magdeburg city charter . From 1452 until the Union of Lublin the place belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania .

Polish time

From 1569 it belonged to the Polish crown or Polish-Lithuanian aristocratic republic within the Volhynian Voivodeship .

During the Russo-Polish War , the Battle of Włodzimierz took place on July 17, 1792 , when a numerically small Polish force led by Tadeusz Kościuszko defeated the Russian troops.

In the Russian Empire

After the second partition of Poland in 1793 , the city became part of the Russian Empire , and from 1795 in the newly created Volyn Governorate .

At the 1897 census, the city already had 9,883 inhabitants.

During the First World War the city was occupied by Austro-Hungarian troops .

Volyn Voivodeship 1919–39

After the Polish-Soviet war in 1919 she came back to Poland . The Polish 17th Infantry Regiment captured the city overnight on January 23, 1919. In the inter-war period , it was the seat of a district within the Volyn Voivodeship and an important garrison.

Second World War

After the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland in September 1939, it belonged to the Ukrainian SSR within the Soviet Union .

During the Russian campaign , the city was captured by the Wehrmacht in July 1941 .

At the beginning of September 1942, around 13,500 of the 15,000 residents of the Jewish ghetto were murdered. As part of this action , the Great Synagogue was also set on fire on Yom Kippur . Around 1,000 craftsmen who had initially been allowed to survive were shot dead in December 1943 by SS-Einsatzgruppe C's special command 4b . “With that,” judges the historian Dieter Pohl , “the ' final solution ' in the Reich Commissioner was completed”.

After hard fighting, the now almost completely destroyed place was reoccupied by the Red Army on July 20, 1944. Until then, the city had the Russian name Wladimir-Wolynsk / Владимир-Волынск, on August 9, 1944 it was renamed by ukase to Wladimir-Wolynski / Wolodymyr-Wolynskyj.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union , the city became part of Volyn Oblast in independent Ukraine in 1991 .

Economy and Transport

In the city there are mainly wood processing plants and the processing of agricultural products.

Wolodymyr-Wolynskyj is located on the Kowel - Lviv railway lines ( Jarosław – Kowel line ) and the Linia Hutnicza Szerokotorowa , which runs as a broad-gauge line via Hrubieszów to the Katowice hut .

The cities of Kovel, Lviv, Lutsk and Novovolynsk can be reached by buses.

Attractions

Uspensky Cathedral
  • Uspensky Cathedral (1160)
  • Basil's Church (14th century) with two onion domes from the 20th century
  • Parish church of St. Anna in baroque style from 1752.
  • Jesuit church, built by Michal Radzimiński in the years 1755–1766. After the dissolution of the order in 1787, the Basilians took over the building and from 1840 the Orthodox took over. From 1919 to 1939 it was again a Catholic church. In 1992 the building was transferred to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate.
  • Dormition Cathedral
  • St. Nicholas Church (1780), originally Uniate Church , today Orthodox
  • Palace of the Bishops of Vladimir
  • Old town (14th to 16th century)
  • Jewish Cemetery

About 5 kilometers south of Volodymyr-Volynskyj is Symne (Зимне), where the oldest Orthodox monastery in Volynia is located.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sergey R. Kravtsov, Vladimir Levin. Synagogues in Ukraine VOLHYNIA Vol. 2. Page 697. The Center Of Jewish Art. ISBN 978-965-227-342-0 .
  2. ^ Dieter Pohl : Scene Ukraine. The mass murder of Jews in the military administration area and in the Reich Commissariat 1941–1943. In: Christian Hartmann , Johannes Hürter , Peter Lieb , Johannes Hürter , Dieter Pohl: The German War in the East 1941–1944. Facets of a border crossing (= sources and representations on contemporary history. Vol. 76). Oldenbourg, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-59138-5 , pp. 155-198, here pp. 183 ff.
  3. ↑ УКАЗ от 9 августа 1944 года Об уточнении наименований городов: Тарнополь, Черновицы, Камерьска

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