Bruckenthal | |
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| Coordinates:50°19′34″N23°52′42.9″E / 50.32611°N 23.878583°E /50.32611; 23.878583 | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast | Lviv Oblast |
| Raion |  Sheptytskyi Raion |
| Established | 1786 |
Bruckenthal (Ukrainian:Брукента́ль,romanized: Brekental) was a village (acolony) located in what is nowSheptytskyi Raion,Lviv Oblast, inWestern Ukraine.
The village was established during theJosephine colonization by German Catholic settlers in 1786.[1]
In the interwar period the village belonged to Poland, and was the seat of agmina (a municipality) including several other villages. In January 1940 the majority of the inhabitants moved out (Heim ins Reich). The empty houses were taken over mostly by local Poles. In late March 1944, the village was razed byUkrainian Auxiliary Police andUkrainian Insurgent Army, killing over 200 people.[2][3]
From the early 1910s, regional unrest led to numerous residents leaving for Germany and America, often to the upper American Midwest, joining otherGermans from Russia in the "German Triangle" of the central Dakotas. Others were not so lucky, and ended up as refugees duringWWII. Afterwards, letters and money were sent between relatives on the west and eastern side of the iron curtain, but by the 1970s communication ceased, possibly due to Russian integration of cultural Germans.[4]
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