Terebovl

Terebovlia (Ukrainian and Russian Теребовля; Polish Trembowla ) is a city in western Ukraine, in the Ternopil. The county town is on the river and the expressway Hnisna M19/E85 south of the district capital, Ternopil halfway to Chortkiv.

At the township next to the city proper and the village Borytschiwka heard ( Боричівка ).

History

As early as the Neolithic period, the area was inhabited by Terebovlia; a first mention is the settlement in the Hipatius Chronicle 1097th At the end of the 11th century was the center of a Terebovlia own principality. Around the middle of 1340 came Terebovlia as part of Halitscher country ( Ziema Halicka ) to the Kingdom of Poland in 1389 and received the Magdeburg rights. 1569 -1772 was the city in the province of Ruthenia, an administrative unit of the needle case- Publik Poland - Lithuania.

After the construction of the castle (late 14th century) Terebovlia became one of the border fortresses of Poland in the fight against the Tartars ( 1453, 1498, 1508, 1516), and Turk (1675, 1688) and was destroyed several times. A glorious contribution to the fight against the " Tartars " delivered in the years 1530-1560 and the Starosta of Bar, later from 1552-1561 Starosta of Terebovlia (then Trembowla ), the German - Silesians Bernard of Prittwitz, who soon after his death ( † 1561) from the poles the nickname " terror Tartarorum " ( fear of the Tatars ) and " Murus Podoliae " ( wall Podolia ) received.

From 1772-1918 Terebovlia was part of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, a crownland of the House of Habsburg; 1918-1919 short part of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic, then polish as part of the Tarnopol Voivodeship and fell in 1939 to the Soviet Union. Since the disintegration of the city is part of Ukraine.

While the membership of Austria - Hungary Terebovlia was a garrison town. 1914 here were the 2nd Squadron of the Bohemian Dragoon Regiment "Graf pair " No. 2 and the Hungarian Military Police Battalion No. 32

Attractions

The castle (14th - 16th century) was repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt, especially end 16./Anfang 17 Jh.s. Today it is only preserved as a ruin. Furthermore, worth seeing are the fortified church of St. Nicholas (16th century, largely rebuilt 1735), which was built around 1635 in Renaissance style Carmelite Church and the associated monastery ( attached ) and a south of the city in the village Pidhora, at the mouth of Hnisna in the Siret, located fortified monastery with church from the end of the 16C The Mother of God Mercy image of the Basilian of T. was evacuated in 1673 by the then Orthodox Archbishop of Lviv, Josyf Schumljanskyj, in the Lviv St. George's Church, where it still is today ( the so-called Lady of Terebovlia ).

Personalities

• Minna Salmon (1907 - 1993), Austrian German literature, writer and teacher