Berezhany

Berezhany (Ukrainian Бережани; Бережаны Russian, Polish Brzezany, German rarely Breschan Armenian Բերեժան ) is a city in the Ternopil Oblast in Ukraine, about 100 km from Lviv ( Lviv ) and 50 km from Ternopil away. The city is the center of Rajons same name, has about 17,000 inhabitants and is located about 280 m above sea level.

For the municipality include not only the city proper and the western villages Lisnyky ( Лісники ) and Raj ( Рай ). The city lies on the River Solota Lypa, north of the town is the dam Solota Lypa. The temperatures drop to -35 ° C in winter and in summer climb up to 40 ° C.

History

The first written mention of the village dates from 1374 as a place of Russia. From the 14th to the 18th century Berezhany belonged to Poland. The city right under Magdeburg Law was the settlement awarded on 19 March 1530 by King Sigismund I..

The location on the way from Lviv to Trembowla had a positive impact on the development of the place. However, this requires also a concern of others, so that in 1534 Mikolaj Synjawsky began the construction of a castle, which was completed in 1554. This castle could withstand all attacks until 1648. This year, Cossacks attacked successfully the place and in 1655 the Swedes. 1675-1676 were fierce battles take place against the Turks.

End of the 17th century, there were nearly 8,000 inhabitants. From the first partition of Poland ( 1772) Berezhany belonged until 1918 to the crown land Galicia of the Austria -Hungarian Habsburg Empire. 1919-1939 it belonged again to Poland and was in 1921 in the province Tarnopol.

1805 a gymnasium was built in Berezhany, which among other things as graduates Włodzimierz Bednarski, Franz Kokovsky, Bohdan Lepkyj, Rudolf Moch, Kornel Ujejski, Ruslan Schaschkewytsch, Edward Rydz - Śmigły and others had. The connection to the rail network in 1894 on the route to Tarnopol. 10,610 inhabitants in 1900 inhabited the place.

Education and Economy

There are four high schools and one high school. Economic significance of a brickyard, a furniture factory and a glass factory.

Attractions

Architecturally significant are the 1554 finished pentagonal castle of Berezhany, a park from the 17th century and the church of Saint Nicholas ( 1691).

Personalities

• Aleksander Brückner, Slawist
• Johann Eduard Hofmokl, doctor
• Vasyl Ivanchuk, Chess Grandmaster
• Edward Rydz - Śmigły, Polish politician, Marshal of Poland, painter and poet

Partnership

It is twinned with the Polish city Kluczbork