Khodoriv

Chodoriw (Ukrainian Ходорів; Russian Ходоров / Chodorow, Polish Chodorow ) is on the river Luh ( Луг ) located a lying in western Ukraine small town about 52 kilometers southeast of the Oblasthauptstadt Lviv.

The place was in 1394 for the first time mentioned in writing (due to its location on two ponds also called Chodorostaw ) and was in the 15th century Magdeburg rights. The city belonged from 1774 to 1918 for Austrian Galicia and was from 1850 to 1867 the seat of a district team. 1866 station of the railway line from Lviv to Chernivtsi ( the Lviv- Czernowitz - Jassy Railway ) was in the place opened, later the routes of Stry and after Podwysokie (with connection to the railway line Halicz - Ostrow - Berezowica ( Tarnopol ) ) were added and made ​​the city as an important railway junction, the industry in the town developed quickly. After the end of the First World War, the city became part of Poland and was in World War II during the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland under the Nazi-Soviet Pact initially by the Red Army (West Poland by Hitler's Germany ) and from June 22, 1941 with the invasion of the Soviet Union until 1944 occupied by Germany. During this time the Jewish inhabitants were deported to the concentration camps and extinguished ( Holocaust ).

1945, the city again came to the Soviet Union ( westward shift of Poland), where they became part of the Ukrainian SSR, since 1991 a part of today's Ukraine.

Because of its location at a railway junction of Chodoriw is an industrial site, in addition to many engineering companies is also a sugar refinery in the town. Also through the village leads the Ukrainian highway M 12

Personalities

  • Oswald Balzer, Polish legal historian
  • Arthur Grottger, Polish painter
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