Bruckenthal
Bruckenthal | |
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Coordinates: 50°19′34″N 23°52′42.9″E / 50.32611°N 23.878583°E | |
Country | Ukraine |
Province | Lviv Oblast |
District | Sokal Raion |
Established | 1786 |
Bruckenthal (Ukrainian: Брукента́ль, romanized: Brekental) was a village (a colony) located in what is now Sokal Raion, Lviv Oblast, in Western Ukraine.
The village was established in the course of the Josephine colonization by German Catholic settlers in 1786.[1]
In the interwar period the village belonged to Poland, and was a seat of gmina (a municipality) including several other villages. In January 1940 the majority of the inhabitants moved out (Heim ins Reich). The empty houses were taken over mostly by local Poles. In late March 1944, the village was razed by Ukrainian Auxiliary Police and Ukrainian Insurgent Army, killing over 200 people.[2][3]
Refugees
From the early 1910s, regional unrest led to numerous residents leaving for Germany and America, often to the upper American Midwest, joining other
Notes
- ^ Lepucki, Henryk (1938). Działalność kolonizacyjna Marii Teresy i Józefa II w Galicji 1772-1790 : z 9 tablicami i mapą (in Polish). Lwów: Kasa im. J. Mianowskiego. pp. 163–165.
- ISBN 83-85865-17-9.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - ^ Grzegorz Rąkowski (2007). Przewodnik po Ukrainie Zachodniej. Część III. Ziemia Lwowska. Oficyna Wydawnicza REWASZ. p. 57.
- ISBN 978-1441537683.