Pidhirtsi ( uk, Підгірці; pl, Podhorce) is a village of about 1,000 inhabitants in Zolochiv Raion,

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, located about 80 km east of

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, 17 km south of

Brody Brody ( uk, Броди; russian: Броды, Brodï; pl, Brody; german: Brody; yi, בראָד, Brod) is a city in Zolochiv Raion of Lviv Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is located in the valley of the upper Styr River, approximately ...

, 60 km north west of

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, at around . It belongs to

Zabolottsi rural hromada Zabolottsi ( ua, Заболотці) is a village (''selo'') in Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, in western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Zabolottsi rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. From 1918 to 1939 the village was in Tar ...

, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Known both for its castle and

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monastery of the Annunciation with an icon of the

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. Although founded near a large Early Slavic gord, the first written mention of a fortified Ruthenian settlement, then called Plisnensk, comes from 1188 and 1233, found in chronicles from Kiev and Halych-Volhynia as well as in the

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. The first Basilian monastery is recorded to have been founded by a princess named Helen in 1180. In the 15th century it is referred to by the present day name and in 1440 granted by king Ladislaus III of Poland to its tenant, the Podhorecki noble family. In 1635 the village was purchased by the

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, who built a fortified residence there. In 1682 it was inherited by the Sobieski family. During the first half of the 18th century the present complex of the Basilian monastery was constructed and in 1754 the icon was crowned by

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. In 1728 the castle was purchased by the Rzewuski family and expanded by Wacław Rzewuski, who also built the Roman Catholic Church of St. Joseph, consecrated in 1766. Finally from 1869 until 1939 the complex became the property of the Sanguszko family, who turned it into a museum. Pidhirtsi suffered heavily from the war and Soviet rule, and its collection was scattered among different museums in Poland and Ukraine. In 1997 the devastated castle was given to the Lviv Art Gallery and is gradually undergoing restoration. Worship in Polish and Ukrainian is held in St. Joseph's Church. In 2009 the village's

monastery became the site of a schism within the

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when seven "Pidhirtsi fathers" declared the founding of the

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. Until 18 July 2020, Pidhirtsi belonged to Brody Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Brody Raion was merged into Zolochiv Raion.

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Podhorce Castle
painted by Jan Matejko * http://jasc51.io.ua/album244297 * http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=b34ef3b4c3bca2bc774b9dbbf9479b12, 3D Model Castle of Pidhiristi made with Google SketchUp {{Authority control Villages in Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast Ruthenian Voivodeship