Chervonohrad

Tscherwonohrad (Ukrainian Червоноград until 1951 Кристинопіль / Krystynopil; Chervonograd Russian, Polish Krystynopol ) is a Ukrainian city with 67 934 inhabitants ( 2012).

Geography

It is located in the Lviv Oblast and is located north of the district capital of Lviv. The nearest large city is Lviv.

For administrative area of the city is also the city Sosniwka as well as the urban-type settlement Hirnyk.

History

In May 1685 voivode Feliks Kazimierz Potocki bought a new piece of land on the river Bug. In 1692 he founded a city on the territory of the village of Novyi Dvir (Polish Nowy Dwór ), which according to his wife Krystyna Lubomirski ( 1661-1699 ) was named. Potocki built Krystonopil from the family home. He died here on 22 September 1702nd His grandson Franz Salezy Potocki built a palace and founded in 1763 a convent of Basilian.

Until 1951 the town belonged to Poland and then came in the wake of a territorial exchange with the Soviet Union, since 1991 she has been a part of today's Ukraine.

As early as 1884 the city was awarded a connection with the construction of a railway station on the railway line today Jarosław - Kovel, 1915 still came a link to Lvov ( Lviv - Kiwerzi see railway line ) to do so.

Demographics

Attractions

• Baroque Church of St. George (1770 )
• The landmark of the city is the palace of Count Potocki.

Economy

Since 1951, the city became the center of the newly formed coal industry. Other companies that, along with mining were a foundry for the production of iron -concrete products, wood processing plants, a dairy and the textile industry.

Traffic

The town lies on the railway line from Kovel to Lviv, here branches off route Rawa -Ruska.