Morshyn

Morshyn (Ukrainian Моршин; Morshin Russian, Polish Morszyn Zdrój ) is a small town and a Spa town in Lviv Oblast in Ukraine. It is situated in the Carpathian Mountains in the valley of the river Bereschniza ( Бережница ), surrounded by forests and is well known as one of the best balneologic resorts of Ukraine. The population is approximately 6482nd

Geography

The spa Morshyn lies on a slope of the Carpathian ridge at an altitude of 340 meters above sea level. The distance to Lviv is 80 kilometers away, Ivano- Frankivsk (Polish Stanisławów ) ​​it is about 100 kilometers. The climate is characterized by wet summers, the autumn is long and mild. The mean temperature of the summer months is 18 degrees Celsius, January is the coldest month with an average temperature of -4 degrees Celsius. The average rainfall is 759 mm. Most rainfall occurs in late spring and summer.

History

The first written mention Morschyns comes from the January 2, 1482 from a court record that will be remembered in the mind that the stains Morshyn the Polish nobles Yuri Nagvazdan and thus part of the Polish Kingdom. At that time it was a small village which counted twelve yards. At the time, took advantage of the farmers Morschyner sources to boil the salt. Later, the then owner Morschyns, Branecki, this business took over, because they had received by the royal chancery permission for the opening of the salt mines. Five wells have been dug for the extraction of the brine from which salt was extracted by boiling. But the industry did not pay, because the Morschyner salt was bitter and unfit for use. A boost to the city in 1875 by the opening of the railway line from Striy by Stanislav (see railway Stry - Ivano-Frankivsk ). The former innkeeper and merchant Bonifacius Stiller - by origin a German - drew the attention of the people of the picturesque scenery and the good connection with the railroad. In the newspapers from 1877 one can read of a climatic health spa resort for tuberculosis patients will be opened in Morshyn. Stiller invited the doctors Piasecky V. and S. Dzikovsky and founded in Morshyn the organization for air and water cure as it was fashionable in western spas. In May 1878 S. Dzikovsky reported on the possibility of organizing the health resort Morshyn in the meeting of the " balneologic Commission " in Krakow. The doctor Liutostansky, who led the inspection in Morshyn reported on the presence of three living rooms for the In Reisten, twelve tubs and wooden water pipe. He also mentioned three sources with bitter- salty water. In 1878 the first official Short Term opened with " facilities for the treatment of breast disease ." From this time on the mineral waters of the springs Morschyns were the subject of study. The first chemical analysis of source No. 1 was published by the professor of the Lviv University V. Radziszewski in 1881. In 1879, two more wells were dug, which received the name of the owner of the spa Stiller and his wife, " Boniface " (Source # 1 ) and " Magdalena " (Source # 2 ). The source No. 3 was named after the daughter " Ludmila ", and the source No. 5 after the son "Adam". These two sources provide pure water. The No. 4 well was named " Mother of God". Also, their water is pure water. At the same time the mud ( " Borowina ") was found in the area. The spa season in 1880 opened " with Minaralwasser and sludge treatment " under the new name. The water from the mineral springs was now used for mineral baths, mud for mud baths and mud packs. In the years 1880 and 1881 the first attempts of the internal use of the mineral spring waters were made, which seem to have proved successful because the water is sold in bottles of 1883. The spa was known. It had become not only in Austria - Hungary, a concept, but also beyond its borders. In advertising brochures that had been issued before the First World War, there were Morshyn the most popular health resorts; it was called " Galician Spa " and " Galician Karlsbad ". About the healing properties of the mineral Morschyner wrote in those years many researchers who compared it with waters in German, Hungarian and Bohemian spas. It now has been exported to the USA, to England, Italy, Romania and other countries. From Warsaw to Morshyn perverted direct railway carriage with the inscription " Warszawa - Morszyn - The spa ". The train ride from Lviv to Morshyn lasted two hours.

Since 1918 Morshyn belonged to Poland. In 1930 in the spa town the Moor Bathhouse, the inhalator and the pump room - the "mushroom", which became the symbol of the city, completed. 1935 began the "Company of the Galician doctors " the construction of spa designed by architect Nikodimovich. Today it is the Kurhaus " Marble Palace " (Ukrainian Мармуровий палац ). After the occupation by the Soviets in late 1944, all nine sanatoriums and private pensions were expropriated and nationalized. 1957, we completed a spa policlinic be administered in the outpatient health cures. In 1960, the spa facilities were handed over to the unions. In the years 1965 to 1975, a cinema, a theater and a modern drinking hall were built, which was the number of spa guests needs. Often were 6,000 spa guests in Morshyn. The last big sanatorium "Lavender" ( Лаванда ) was completed in the late 1980s. The popularity of the spa town grew steadily. In 1964, 42,221 people visited Morshyn, 1973 there were 59 288, and 1977 were 67 137 people treated. Within the Soviet Union Morshyn won Allunionsbedeutung. After the independence of Ukraine reaching efforts were underway to privatize the sanatoriums. Many homes have been renovated completely or partially. In 1997 the town city rights were granted, since 2002 the city is acyclic in the Lviv Oblast.

Indications

The greatest wealth Morschyns are the diverse composite mineral waters. Be treated chronic diseases of the stomach, the stomach -intestinal tract and pancreas with the water sources No. 1 ( sulfate, chloride, sodic - total mineralization 165 g / l) and No. 6 (sodium, magnesium, potassium, sulphide, chloride content - total mineralization 185-238 g / l). Treatment of renal, urinary tract and metabolic disorders, the water of the spring No. 4 is preferably ( total mineralization 0.17 g / l), which is slightly radioactive and weakly mineralized with sodium, magnesium, potassium and iron. For the musculoskeletal mud and paraffin treatments are administered and prescribed baths.