Zolochiv

This article is about the city in western Ukraine, for information on the urban-type settlement of the same name in Kharkiv Oblast, see Zolochiv (Urban-Type Settlement) .

Zolochiv
Золочів
	Zolochiv
Basic data
Oblast :	Lviv Oblast
Rajon :	Zolochiv Raion
Height :	no information
Area :	11.64 km²
Residents :	23,406 (2004)
Population density :	2,011 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	80703
Area code :	+380 3265
Geographic location :	49 ° 48 '  N , 24 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 48 '29 "  N , 24 ° 53' 53"  E
KOATUU :	4621810100
Administrative structure :	1 city
Mayor :	Volodymyr Subar
Address:	вул. Шашкевича 22 80 700 м. Золочів
Statistical information
Zolochiv

Zolochiv ( Ukrainian Золочів ; Russian Золочев Zolochev , Polish Zloczow , Yiddish זלאָטשאָוו Zlotschow) is a Ukrainian city with more than 23,000 inhabitants. It is located in the Lviv Oblast and is located east of the Oblast capital Lviv .

history

Downtown around 1916

Tarnopol Voivodeship until 1939 - location of the city

• 1340 - 1569 ( Lviv region ) in the Kingdom of Poland . The city became famous for its salt mines .

• 1569 - 1772 part of the Lviv Land (Polish: Ziemia lwowska ) in the Ruthenia Voivodeship , an administrative unit of the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania .

From 1772 the place belonged to Galicia under Austrian rule and quickly became an administrative seat for the district office and from 1850 the seat of the district administration Złoczów , together with the district court established in 1867, they existed until 1918. In 1869, the village was given the construction of a railway line (today Railway line Krasne – Odessa ) a train station.

In 1918 the city came back to Poland and from 1921 was part of the Tarnopol Voivodeship . During the Second World War , Zolochiv was initially occupied by the Soviet Union in 1939 and by Germany from 1941 .

In June 1941 the NKVD murdered around 700 prisoners in the local prison, which was set up in the citadel above the city. After the Soviet troops had withdrawn and the Wehrmacht had marched through , Ukrainian nationalists carried out a pogrom in July 1941 with the help of soldiers from the SS “Wiking” division . They murdered around 900 Jews and Russians until the German officer Helmuth Groscurth stopped further crimes.

The village has been part of the Soviet Union since 1945 and was incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR there. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the city has been part of the independent Ukraine.

Town twinning

Zolochiv is a twin city ​​of the German city ​​of Schöningen .

sons and daughters of the town

• Jechiel Michael von Zloczow (1731–1786), Hasidic rabbi
• Naphtali Herz Imber (1856–1909), Jewish poet
• Moyshe-Leyb Halpern (1886–1932), Yiddish-speaking poet
• Tadeusz Brzeziński (1896–1990), Polish consular officer
• Weegee , actually Arthur Fellig, born Usher Fellig (1899–1968), American photographer
• Carlos Feller (1922–2018), Argentine opera singer, born Kalman Felberbaum
• Wacław Świerzawski (1927-2017), Roman Catholic bishop
• Roald Hoffmann (* 1937), American Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
• Andrij Hussin (1972–2014), Ukrainian football player

literature

• Shlomo Wolkowicz: The grave at Zloczow . Story of my survival. Galicia 1939-1945. Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-88981-092-6 .

Web links

Commons : Zolochiv  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt of October 8, 1850, No. 383, page 1741
2. ↑ Der Spiegel : Corpses in the Orchard from January 25, 1999
3. ↑ Christian Streit: Against the horrors. How General Staff Officer Helmuth Groscurth resisted the murder in the Soviet Union . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 9, 2017, p. 55.