Ust-Chorna

Ust- Chorna (Ukrainian Усть - Чорна; Russian Усть-Чорная/Ust-Tschornaja; German king box, Slovak Ustčorna, Hungarian Királymező ) is an urban-type settlement in western Ukraine. The town lies in Rajon Tyachiv has about 1500 inhabitants and is situated at the confluence of Mokrjanka with the Brusturjanka that continue to flow as Teresva and open at Tyachiv into the Tisza.

The village is situated picturesquely located amidst the mountains of the Gorgani over the Carpathians, the access roads are however already very taken by many timber transports.

The place was as a daughter church of German - Mokra (now Komsomolsk ) founded in 1815 by originating from the Upper Austrian Salzkammergut woodworkers. The village was planned created because German - Mokra had become too small for all residents and the jobs of many villagers further downstream were at the Teresva. About ten years after the founding of the church was already bigger than German - Mokra. As the valley is very narrow at this point, the site was created as a series of village. The inhabitants were mainly forest workers. During the Czechoslovak era, the village was a small tourist center, the Second World War and the connection to the Soviet Union, however, continued to an abrupt end.

Flood

In 1998, the town was also deeply affected by the flooding of the local river Teresva. Since then, the place is cut off from the forest railway Tereswatal, which was extended in the place since 1928. For financial reasons, the railway company can not afford a new link.

English speaking place

Since King Field was founded in 1815 by German - Mokra out, was for a long time the old Central Bavarian dialect from the Salzkammergut, the language of most inhabitants. After the Second World War came the Carpathian Ruthenia, and thus Royal box to the Soviet Union. Many German-speaking inhabitants were then subjected to massive repression, some were deported to Siberia even, and it was forbidden to speak the language of the just defeated enemy. Thus, the Salzkammergütler dialect of German residents was largely replaced over time by the Ukrainian. After the turn, many families have emigrated to Germany and Austria, which is why the number of speakers has continued to decline, so that there are only about 15 German -speaking families in Ust- Chorna today.

More on the history of posts originating from the Salzkammergut immigrants and their language in the article to the neighboring village of Komsomolsk ( German German - Mokra ).