Tysmenytsia

Tysmenyzja (Ukrainian Тисмениця; German also Tysmenitz, Russian Тысменица / Tysmeniza, Polish Tyśmienica ) is a city located in western Ukraine, the Oblasthauptstadt Ivano-Frankivsk on the river Worona ( Ворона ) located about 11 kilometers to the east.

History

The town was first mentioned in writing in 1143, in 1449 he received the Magdeburg rights conferred. The city belonged from 1772 to 1918 for Austrian Galicia and was from 1774 to 1782 the seat of a district office and from 1850 to 1876 back seat of a district team. The place with already thousands of years furrier tradition developed into a center of fur processing and got 1884 a railway connection to the railway line Stanislav - Buczacz. 1988, there was a Dutch- Ukrainian joint venture with a Pelzkonfektionär from Frankfurt am Main as a partner, coupled with the construction of a fur finishing and fur clothing factory with initially 250, later up to 350 employees (as of 1998).

After the end of World War I he joined the Tyśmienica to Poland and was occupied during the Second World War only by the Soviet Union and from 1941 to 1944 from Germany.

1945, the city again came to the Soviet Union, where they became part of the Ukrainian SSR, since 1991 a part of today's Ukraine. Since 1982, the city is the seat of the homonymous Rajonsverwaltung Rajons Tysmenyzja.

Personalities

• Food Lewyzkyj, Galician lawyer and politician