Dobromyl

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City in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

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::summary City in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine ::

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subdivision_name2Sambir Raion
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| official_name = Dobromyl | native_name = Добромиль | other_name = Dobromil | settlement_type = City | image_skyline = Добромильський замок на заході сонця.jpg | image_caption = Herburt castle ruins near Dobromyl | image_shield = Dobromyl coat of arms (UHT).svg | shield_size = | pushpin_map = Ukraine Lviv Oblast#Ukraine | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = | subdivision_type1 = Oblast | subdivision_name1 = Lviv Oblast | subdivision_type2 = Raion | subdivision_name2 = Sambir Raion | area_total_km2 = 4.97 | population_as_of = 2022 | population_total = 4111 | population_density_km2 = auto | timezone = EET | utc_offset = +2 | timezone_DST = EEST | utc_offset_DST = +3 | coordinates = | postal_code_type = Postal code | postal_code = | area_code = | image_flag = Flag of Dobromyl.svg | website = | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 11 | mapframe-wikidata = yes | subdivision_type3 = Hromada | subdivision_name3 = Dobromyl urban hromada Dobromyl (, ; ) is a city in Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast, in western Ukraine. It is located some 5 kilometers from the border with Poland. It hosts the administration of Dobromyl urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population:

History

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| title = Historical affiliations | quote = Kingdom of Poland-flag.svg Kingdom of Poland 1374–1772 Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy.svg Habsburg monarchy 1772–1918 Ukrainian People's Republic West Ukrainian People's Republic 1918–1919 Second Polish Republic Second Polish Republic 1918–1939 Soviet Union 1939–1941 (occupation) Nazi Germany 1941–1944 (occupation) Soviet Union 1944–1991 Ukraine 1991–present | align = left | width = 23em | fontsize = 85% | bgcolor = #B0D4DE Dobromyl was first mentioned in 1374, as a settlement founded by the Herburt family, upon request of Polish prince Władysław Opolczyk. In 1566 King Sigismund I the Old granted Magdeburg town rights and established two annual fairs and a weekly market. Eighteen years later, Stanislaw Herburt built a castle here, the town also had a printing shop, where in 1612 the Annales seu cronici incliti regni Poloniae (The Annals of Jan Długosz) were published. In 1647, a storehouse for imported Hungarian wine was established. Until the First Partition of Poland (1772), Dobromyl was part of Przemyśl Land, Ruthenian Voivodeship, Lesser Poland Province. In the course of time, the branch of the Herburt family which resided in the town changed its name into Dobromilski.

In 1772, Dobromyl was annexed by the Habsburg Empire, and until 1918 belonged to Austrian Galicia. It was located on the main road connecting Przemyśl with Turka and Hungary. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Dobromil._Główna_Ulica.Sklepy_żydowskie(03).jpg" caption="Town center in the interwar period"] ::

Following the Nazi and Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, Dobromyl was transferred to Soviet Ukraine. In June 1941, soon after the German attack on the USSR, Soviet NKVD murdered hundreds of prisoners who had been evacuated from nearby Przemyśl, dumping their bodies into a salt mine on the outskirts of Dobromyl. Under German occupation, Dobromyl was transferred to Przemyśl County, Kraków District, General Government. In October 1941, the German occupiers established a Jewish open ghetto. On 29 June 1942, the ghetto was liquidated and most Jews were deported to the Bełżec extermination camp, whereas some 500 stayed in the town, including Judenrat members and Jewish policemen, who bribed the Germans, and were eventually murdered by the occupiers in November 1942. On August 8, 1944 the town was seized by the Red Army.

Since 1991 Dobromyl is part of independent Ukraine. The town has a local office of the Association of Polish Culture of the Lviv Land.

Until 18 July 2020, Dobromyl belonged to Staryi Sambir Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Staryi Sambir Raion was merged into Sambir Raion.

Points of interest

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/3.Василіанський_монастир_у_м._Добромиль.JPG" caption="Basilian monastery in Dobromyl"] ::

A Basilian monastery in Dobromyl was established in 1612 by Jan Szczęsny Herburt. By the late 19th century it was in decline, with only two monks and a hegumen residing on its premises, so in 1882 a reform of the closter took place under supervision of Jesuits. As a result of the reform, the monastery became an important centre of religious education. Among notable personalities who spent time in the closter were Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishops Soter Ortynsky and Andrey Sheptytsky.

In 2016, a Wall of Remembrance was unveiled on the site of the Jewish cemetery. The memorial was built from more than 150 Jewish tombstones that had been lining the courtyard of a house on Mickiewicz Street since World War II.

Notable people

  • Physician and major of the Polish Army, Stanislaw van der Coghen, murdered in the Katyn massacre,
  • Piotr Geisler, doctor and general of the Polish Army,
  • Tadeusz Stanislaw Grabowski, Polish historian and professor of the Jagiellonian University,
  • Kazimierz Wisniowski, brigade general of the Polish Army.

References

References

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  3. . (1924). "Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Tom XIII". *Główny Urząd Statystyczny*.
  4. [[Halyna Pahutiak. (2021-06-29). "Кривавий морок Добромильської Саліни".
  5. (2012). "The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume II". Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
  6. (2020-07-18). "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ.".
  7. "Нові райони: карти + склад". Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
  8. "Чернеча гора в Добромилі".
  9. (2025-10-13). "Повсякдення Добромильського монастиря у 1880-х роках".
  10. (2021-01-25). "Відкриття Стіни Пам'яті на єврейському цвинтарі у Добромилі (фото) - Добромильський край".

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