Ugartsthal, a former German

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in the

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which is today part of the village Sivka-Kaluska in

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(

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), is located west of Kalush.

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In the 19th century around the colony to the north laid Wierzchnia and Mościska, to the east Kalush, to the south Siwka, on the west - a village Kropiwnik. Through the centre of village flowed the Kropiwnik stream; through northern part flows Froniłów or Fornelów; left inflow of Kropiwnik Buildings of the village lie near the border of Siwka (Mt. 316 m.). The village composed one commune with Siwka. In 1880 there were 62 houses, 423 inhabitants in the commune, (43

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s). The Evangelical

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in the place from 1784, the church from 1788 . To the parish belongs 3320 souls. Branches: Landestreu, Nowica, and Petranka. In the village there is a religious school and communal loan-society (Earning Cashier) with capital 535 złr. The Ugartsthal name of the village, and other similar localities (e.g. Ugartsberg) originate from the name of the contemporary

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Alois Ugarte
The German settlements were established on the base of so-called

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. The name of Ugartsthal was changed by

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administration in the late 1930s to Tespowo. The village of Landestreu changed at the same time the name to Mazurówka. In the Samuel Bredetzky's register in Ugartsthal there are found 63 families, (327 "souls" - persons).

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ate embraced following localities: Ugartsthal, Landestreu,

Kałusz Kalush ( ) is a city set in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Kalush Raion (district) and hosts the administration of Kalush urban hromada, one ...

, Neu-Dolina, Engelsberg, Horocholina, Wełdzirz, Stanisławów, Bohorodczany, Grabowiec,

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, Nowica, Petranka, Krasna.

References

* Wielki Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego, Warszawa 1880 *The count Alois Ugarte was an owner of the palace in Kravsko, Czech Rep. See
Alois Graf von und zu Ugarte
( d. 1845) was in 1787 – 1802 a Governor (Statthalter) of Moravia (a separate Austrian crownland, German: Markgrafschaft Mähren) – see

* Herman Schick in his Memories of the Parish Ugartsthal – Landestreu („Zeitweiser der Galiziendeutschen 1976", published also in Newsletter No. 6 of Galizien German Descendants) writes „that Ugartsthal was named after Herr von Ugart, the owner of the lands where the original 40 farms had been laid out" * Herman Schick, Memories of the Parish Ugartsthal – Landestreu („Zeitweiser der Galiziendeutschen 1976", published also in Newsletter No. 6 of Galizien German Descendants) – writes that Tespowo comes from the abbreviation TESP, that is Towarzystwo Eksploatacji Soli Potasowej – the Company for Exploration of Salt Mines in Kalusz * Gedenkbuch zur Erinnerung an die Einwanderung der Deutschen in Galizien vor 150 Jahren, Poznań 1931, * Ludwig Schneider, Das Kolonisationswerk Josefs II. in Galizien, Leipzig 1939. English translation by Leona Rosenmeier (published in GGD #15, July 1998).
Geschichte der Deutschen in den Karpathenländern by Kaindl, Raimund Friedrich

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