Verbovets
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| Street of former shtetl | Photo P.Zholtovskogo, 1930. Neat parochial houses are clearly visible in the background | ||
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| The only attraction of Verbovets - well-preserved synagogue | Judging from the inventory inside, here now a sports hall | Once it was the home of the non-poor city dweller |
Verbovets, 2013 г.
The first information about the village date from the first half of the XV century. (1439 g). Since 1566 the village was in possession of Roch Gorki, and then Stanislaw Gorki, who in 1607 won the Polish King Sigismund permit transformation of the countryside to the city, as well as the construction of the castle in it.
The population at that time was such a composition: Orthodox - 1144 people, Catholics - 583 people, the Jews - 1934 people...
During the war of 1648 - 1654 pp. under the leadership of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Verbovets was devastated castle destroyed, Jews and Catholics slaughtered and Orthodox population scattered in different directions, so that the lustration in 1665 showed a complete absence of even one farmer from the then owner Verbovtsa, Galician cornet Stephen Zlochivskogo.
In 1796 he was appointed Verbovets Empress Catherine II in the district town. In 1797 there lived burghers Christian - 1394 people, 1242 people of the Jews..
With the formation of Ushitskogo County in 1804 Verbovets became a provincial town. In the old documents preserved seal with the inscription. "City Verbovets Kamenetz-Podolsk province, county Novoushitskogo"
July 20, 1941 in the village entered the Hungarians, followed by the Germans. All the Jews were taken to the district center and shot.
The population at that time was such a composition: Orthodox - 1144 people, Catholics - 583 people, the Jews - 1934 people...
During the war of 1648 - 1654 pp. under the leadership of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Verbovets was devastated castle destroyed, Jews and Catholics slaughtered and Orthodox population scattered in different directions, so that the lustration in 1665 showed a complete absence of even one farmer from the then owner Verbovtsa, Galician cornet Stephen Zlochivskogo.
In 1796 he was appointed Verbovets Empress Catherine II in the district town. In 1797 there lived burghers Christian - 1394 people, 1242 people of the Jews..
With the formation of Ushitskogo County in 1804 Verbovets became a provincial town. In the old documents preserved seal with the inscription. "City Verbovets Kamenetz-Podolsk province, county Novoushitskogo"
July 20, 1941 in the village entered the Hungarians, followed by the Germans. All the Jews were taken to the district center and shot.
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