Karlsdorf, Ukraine Explained

Karlsdorf
Settlement Type:village
Pushpin Map:Ukraine Lviv Oblast#Ukraine
Coordinates:48.8333°N 23.1667°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Stryi Raion
Established Title:Established
Established Date:around 1835
Unit Pref:Metric
Elevation Footnotes:/(average value of)
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone:EET
Utc Offset:+2
Timezone Dst:EEST
Utc Offset Dst:+3
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Area Code Type:Area code

Karlsdorf (Ukrainian: Карлсдорф) was a village (a German colony) in the vicinity of Klymets, in what is now Stryi Raion, Lviv Oblast, of Western Ukraine.

The village was established around 1835 by Karl Scheiff, the heir of Smozhe. He invited Catholic German settlers from western Bohemia, fueling the society of Galician Germans. In the same year two other nearby German colonies were established in the same way, Felizienthal and Annaberg, forming a small language island. Karlsdorf became a seat of the German-speaking Catholic parish in 1843, which was in 1863 moved to Felizienthal.[1]

In the inter-war period the village belonged to Poland.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Rąkowski, Grzegorz. Ukraińskie Karpaty i Podkarpacie. Część zachodnia.. Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz". Pruszków. 2013. 978-83-62460-31-1. 513. Polish.