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Korosnytsia (, or ''Josefsberg'', or ''Korosnica'') is a
village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
(''selo'') in
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,
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, in south-west
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. It belongs to Medenychi settlement hromada, one of the
hromada In Ukraine, a hromada () is the main type of municipality and the third level Administrative divisions of Ukraine, local self-government in Ukraine. The current hromadas were established by the Cabinet of ministers of Ukraine, Government of Uk ...
s of Ukraine. The community was founded in 1784, and in 2001 had a population of 144. Korosnytsia, originally known as Josefsberg in German and later also as Korosnica in Polish, is located four kilometers from the town of Medenychi and 22 kilometers from
Drohobych Drohobych ( ; ; ) is a city in the south of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Drohobych Raion and hosts the administration of Drohobych urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. In 1939–1941 and 1944–1959 it w ...
.


History

Josefsberg was one of many German villages created by a colonization program initiated by the Austrian Emperor
Joseph II Joseph II (13 March 1741 – 20 February 1790) was Holy Roman Emperor from 18 August 1765 and sole ruler of the Habsburg monarchy from 29 November 1780 until his death. He was the eldest son of Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Emperor F ...
in 1782 (
Josephine colonization The Josephine colonization (, ) was a state-funded Colonization, settlement campaign organised under the rule of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph II in the 1780s, in the then-new crownland of the Austrian Empire, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodom ...
). Houses and out buildings were built in the villages with outlying tracts of land assigned to each house. Joseph II encouraged German farmers, typically from the Palatinate (i.e. Rheinland-Pflaz, a state now in south-west Germany), to relocate to the area, and farm the land. The government supplied them with farm equipment, livestock, seed grain, and everything necessary to begin farming. By 1880 the population of Josefsberg was 750. The settlers were assured complete and comprehensive freedom of conscience and religion as per the "Settlement-Patent" of September 21, 1782. Approximately 90 of 163 German villages were exclusively Protestant (Lutheran) faith, Josefsberg being one of them. The 1882 Polish geographic dictionary described the people of Josefsberg: "They are of Helvetic confession, have their own priest, beautiful stone church, evangelical school. The parish include the neighbouring village of Ugartsberg. Evangelical Reformed Parish was established by the Austrian cesar (king) Joseph II in 1784, the parish (together with Ugartsberg) has 1,419 people; 773 in Josefsberg; church of 1805 and a cemetery."Slownik Geograficzny Krolewstwa Polskiego..., Warszawa, 1882, Vol. III, page 605. At the onset of
World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
the Germans still living in these villages were resettled back into German-occupied territories. With the departure of the German Lutherans, the village became inhabited by Ukrainians. The original Lutheran church now sports an onion-shaped spire.


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Image:Korosnytsia house.jpg, A typical house Image:Church-Korosnyzia.Josefsberg.jpg, The church now Ukrainian Orthodox Villages in Drohobych Raion