Rivne, Lviv Oblast

Rivne Рівне Königsau Równe
Village
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Coordinates: 49°22′49″N 23°45′50″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Lviv Oblast
Raion	Drohobych
Area	0.676 km^2 (0.261 sq mi)
Population	200
• Density	300/km^2 (770/sq mi)

Rivne (Ukrainian: Рівне, German: Königsau, Polish: Równe) is a village (selo) in Drohobych Raion, Lviv Oblast, in west Ukraine. It belongs to Medenychi settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1]

The village was established in the course of Josephine colonization by German Roman Catholic settlers in 1783.[2] It was arranged in an unusual manner, within a pentagon, the only such colony in Galicia.[3] In the planning process the village was to have a Catholic church built, which, however, did not happen until 1846.[4][5]

From 1918 to 1939 the village was in Lwów Voivodeship in Poland. In 1936 the name of the municipality was changed to Równe.[5] In January 1940 the local German population was moved out (Heim ins Reich), later replaced by Ukrainians.

References

1. "Меденицька територіальна громада" (in Ukrainian). decentralization.gov.ua.
2. 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.
3. Rąkowski, Grzegorz (2013). Ukraińskie Karpaty i Podkarpacie. Część zachodnia (in Polish). Pruszków: Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz". p. 212. ISBN 978-83-62460-31-1.
4. H. Lepucki, 1938, p. 103
5. The History of Königsau. A German-Speaking Roman Catholic Village in Galizia

External links

• Königsau. A German Roman Catholic village in Galizian