Solotvyno

Solotvyno (Ukrainian Солотвино; Russian Solotwino - to 1995 Солотвина / Solotwina, German very rare salt mines, Slovak Slatinské Doly, Hungarian Aknaszlatina, Romanian Ocna Slatina ) is an urban-type settlement in the Western Ukraine ( Oblast Transcarpathia Rajon Tyachiv ) about 24 kilometers southeast the city Tyachiv.

The approximately 9,000 inhabitants village lies in the valley of the Tisza River on the border with Romania ( located on the opposite bank Sighetu Marmaţiei ). The place is known mainly because of its large salt deposits, the company operates Ukrsolprom there salt mining. Due to the saline sources acts the place where since 1968 a sanatorium in operation, as a health center.

History

The town was first mentioned in writing in 1360 as Zlatina. It actually consists of two parts. The location just south part of the Tisza was the Hungarian name Faluszlatina (Slovak then similar Selo Slatina ), this grew after the Second World War together and now form a unit.

1880 Solotvyno was connected to the railway network (via a narrow gauge line from the opposite Theißseite off), 1910, the Kingdom of Hungary which is in the county Máramaros place 2,330 inhabitants, the majority of whom were Hungarians. After the end of World War II, he came to the newly created Czechoslovakia (as part of the Carpathian Ukraine ), but was again annexed by Hungary in 1939. After the railway line to the salt mines only about Romania was possible and there were strong tensions between the two countries built the Hungarian railways an already longer planned railway line between Teresva and Solotvyno so that the place is now on the railway line Teresva - Welykyj Bychkiv. After the end of World War II the town was ceded to the Soviet Union in 1947 and was then the status of an urban-type settlement. Since 2007, there is again a bridge connection to Sighet on the Tisza after the old bridge had been blown up in 1944 by withdrawing German troops.

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