Lavochne
Лавочне | |
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Coordinates: 48°48′26″N 23°21′19″E / 48.80722°N 23.35528°E | |
Country | Ukraine |
Province | Lviv Oblast |
District | Stryi Raion |
Established | 1591 |
Area | |
• Total | 264 km2 (102 sq mi) |
Elevation /(average value of) | 663 m (2,175 ft) |
Population | |
• Total | 1,198 |
• Density | 45,379/km2 (117,530/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Postal code | 82652 |
Area code | +380 3251 |
Website | село Лавочне (Ukrainian) |
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Lavochne ( Ukrainian: Ла́вочне, Polish: Ławoczne) is a village ( selo) in the Stryi Raion, in the Lviv Oblast ( province) of Western Ukraine (prior to 1959, it was situated in the Drohobych Oblast). It belongs to the Slavske settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. [1] The village has 1,198 inhabitants, and local government is through the Lavochnenska village council. [2]
The village is located on the
Lviv-
Chop railway line.
The
Mukachevo-
Svalyava-Lavochne railway line was constructed in 1881, and altered in 1887 to
Lviv-
Stryi-Chop. The Lavochne railway station building was opened in 1886.
Lavochne is situated 146 kilometres (91 mi) away from the regional center of
Lviv, 41 kilometres (25 mi) from the city of
Skole, and 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the
urban village
Slavske.
The first written mention of the village refers to 1591, when it was a part of the Ruthenian voivodeship of the
Rzeczpospolita.
[3] In the years 1772-1918, Lavochne was part of the
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria under Austrian rule. After the dissolution of
Austria-Hungary, Lavochne became part of the
Second Polish Republic, serving as the border railway station - first on the Polish-Chekhoslovakian border (until March 1939), and then on the Polish-Hungarian border. After the
Invasion of Poland, Lavochne found itself in Soviet territory. From 1941 to 1944, Lavochne was part of
Nazi Germany's
District of Galicia. Lavochne was the last Ukrainian settlement liberated from Nazi occupation, on 8 October 1944.
[4] Since that time Lavochne is part of
Ukraine (in
Drohobych Oblast until 1959, since then in Lviv Oblast).
According to one telling, the village's name derives from wooden benches (
Ukrainian: лавки lavky) stacked in order to cross the river.
Until 18 July 2020, Lavochne belonged to the Skole Raion. That raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of an administrative reform in Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of the Lviv Oblast to seven. The territory of the Skole Raion was merged into the Stryi Raion. [5] [6]
The village used to contain an architectural monument (1415/1), the wooden church of St. Michael, dating to 1907. [7] On July 10, 2012, the church was destroyed in a fire caused by a lightning strike. [8] In its place, another church, also wooden, has been built.
Lavochne is the hometown of the heroes of Mirjam Pressler's novel "Malka Mai".