Uchanie

Uchanie
Village
Aerial view of Uchanie
Aerial view of Uchanie
Uchanie is located in Poland
Uchanie
Uchanie
Coordinates: 50°54′30″N 23°39′00″E / 50.90833°N 23.65000°E / 50.90833; 23.65000
Country Poland
VoivodeshipLublin
CountyHrubieszów
GminaUchanie
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registrationLHR

Uchanie [uˈxaɲɛ] is a village in Hrubieszów County, Lublin Voivodeship, in southeastern Poland.[1] It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Uchanie.

History

Church of the Assumption, before 1900

Uchanie was a royal village, half of which was granted in 1470 by King Casimir IV Jagiellon in Radom to Paweł Jasieński, castellan of Sandomierz, starost of Bełz and Chełm.[2] Paweł Jasieński built a church in 1482–1484.[2] The castle was possibly also built by Paweł Jasieński.[2] In 1484, by an act granted in Piotrków, Casimir IV granted Magdeburg town rights and established weekly markets and annual fairs.[2] In 1504 King Alexander Jagiellon confirmed these privileges in Kraków.[2] 1549, the castle withstood a Tatar raid, but the church and monastery were looted.[2] In 1596, King Sigismund III Vasa established an additional annual fair and moved the weekly markets from Wednesdays to Mondays.[2] In 1603, he established a third annual fair and authorized the construction of a town hall and inns.[2] Uchanie was a private town of the Jasieński, Uchański, Daniłowicz and Potocki families.[2]

According to the data of the ethnographic expedition of 1869-1870 under the leadership of Pavlo Chubynskyi, Greek Catholics who spoke Ukrainian lived in this village[3] In 1874, Szydłowski built a new palace near the old castle remains.[2]

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1827867—    
18641,812+109.0%
Source: [2]

Between the years of 1928-1932, the Polish government ordered the destruction of the local Orthodox church as part of a large-scale campaign to destroy Ukrainian churches in the Chełm region and Podlasie.[4]

Upon the German invasion of Poland at the start of World War II in 1939, Uchanie had a population of 1,161 Jews. The Jewish population was sent to nearby Hrubieszów, from where they were sent to the Sobibór extermination camp. The Jewish community then ceased to exist.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Główny Urząd Statystyczny" [Central Statistical Office] (in Polish). To search: Select "Miejscowości (SIMC)" tab, select "fragment (min. 3 znaki)" (minimum 3 characters), enter town name in the field below, click "WYSZUKAJ" (Search).
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich (in Polish). Vol. XII. Warszawa. 1892. pp. 736–737.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ "Труды этнографическо-статистической экспедиции в Западно-Русский Край", Вікіпедія (in Ukrainian), 2024-08-05, retrieved 2024-10-10 p. 364-365
  4. ^ "Холмщина і Підляшшя (1997)". irbis-nbuv.gov.ua. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
  5. ^ "Virtual Sztetl". 2018-07-21.
allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uchanie