Wowche (Turka)
| Wowche | |||
| Вовче | |||
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| Basic data | |||
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| Oblast : | Lviv Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Turka district | ||
| Height : | 573 m | ||
| Area : | 3.7 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1,813 (2001) | ||
| Population density : | 490 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 82513 | ||
| Area code : | Information is missing | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 13 ' N , 22 ° 55' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 4625587001 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 1 village | ||
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Wowtsche ( Ukrainian Вовче ; Russian Волчье Woltsche , Polish Wołcze ) is a village in the western Ukrainian Lviv Oblast with about 1,800 inhabitants.
history
The town was founded in 1519 by Helio after the founding privilege of Sigismund I founded. The descendants of Helios became the noble Wołczański family . As early as the 16th century, the village was divided into two parts: an upper and a lower. Both had their own Orthodox churches, which were maintained by Sigismund II August in 1558.
During the first partition of Poland , Wowtsche came to the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire in 1772 (from 1804).
In the course of the Josephine colonization , a group of German Catholic colonists settled there. In 1900 a Roman Catholic chapel was built.
In 1900 the village of Wołcze had 370 houses with 2430 inhabitants, 2301 of them Ruthenian-speaking, 129 Polish-speaking, 2171 Greek-Catholic, 140 Roman-Catholic, 119 Jews.
After the end of the Polish-Ukrainian War in 1919, Wowche came to Poland . In 1921 the community had 390 houses with 2242 inhabitants, including 2006 Ruthenians, 236 Poles, 2015 Greek Catholic, 141 Roman Catholic, 86 Jews (religion).
During the Second World War it belonged first to the Soviet Union and from 1941 to the Generalgouvernement , from 1945 back to the Soviet Union, and from 1991 to the independent Ukraine .
Attractions
- Wooden orthodox church in the lower part of the village, built in 1680.
- Wooden orthodox church in the upper part of the village, built in 1890.
- Former Roman Catholic chapel, built in 1900, branch of the parish in Turka.
Wowche
Orthodox Church
Former Roman Catholic chapel
Web links
- Wołcze (2) . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 13 : Warmbrun – Worowo . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1893, p. 861 (Polish, edu.pl ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Grzegorz Rąkowski: Ukraińskie Karpaty i Podkarpacie, część zachodnia. Przewodnik krajoznawczo-historyczny . Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", Pruszków 2013, ISBN 978-83-62460-31-1 , p. 404 (Polish).
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Główny Urząd Statystyczny: Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Województwo stanisławowskie . Warszawa 1924 (Polish, online [PDF]).