Rivne, Lviv Oblast

Rural locality in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Village in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Rivne

Рівне

Königsau
Równe

Village

Rivne

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Coordinates: 49°22′49″N 23°45′50″E﻿ / ﻿49.38028°N 23.76389°E﻿ / 49.38028; 23.76389
Country|  Ukraine
Oblast|  Lviv Oblast
Raion| Drohobych

Area

| 0.676 km2 (0.261 sq mi)
Population

| 200
• Density| 300/km2 (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

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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. ^ a b The History of Königsau. A German-Speaking Roman Catholic Village in Galizia

## External links

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* Königsau. A German Roman Catholic village in Galizian

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