Bila Krynytsia, Chernivtsi Oblast

Bila Krynyzja (Ukrainian Біла Криниця; Russian Belaya Krinitsa, Белая Криница, Romanian Fântâna Albă, until 1918 under Austrian administration Fontina Alba or Biala Kiernica ) is a village in the Chernivtsi Oblast of western Ukraine. It is located in Rajon Hlyboka only a few hundred meters north of the Ukrainian- Romanian border in Bukovina. Together with the north-eastern village of Stary Wowtschynez it forms the district municipality Stary Wowtschynez.

The hierarchy of Belaya Krinitsa ( Belokrinizkaja hierarchija ) of the Old Believers had their headquarters ( officially he still is today ), since 1940, this is located in Brăila. The Lipowanische Christian Church from the Old Rite (see also Lipovans ) and the Russian Orthodox Church Altritualistische belong to this.

History

The town was founded in 1785 as one of several Lipowanerkolonien after the area with the name Warniza was chosen in 1784 for the settlement of the Lipovans. Until 1918, he was part of the Austrian crown land Bukovina ( in the judicial district Sereth ), then it came to Romania and was in the circle Storojineţ. After the occupation of Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union in 1940 as a result of the Hitler - Stalin Pact, it came on 1 April 1941 massacre of Fântâna Albă, in which about 200 people were killed by Soviet troops. In the summer of 1941, Romania conquered the territory and the place again but he is since 1944 again a part of the Soviet Union since 1991 or Ukraine.