Chortkiv - Czortków

Chortkiv
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Country	Ukraine
Region	Ternopil region
Surface	30 km²
Population	29 000
Area code	380-3552
Postal Code	48500 — 48509
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Chortkiv - a city separated from the area on Ukraine, in Ternopil region, the seat of the Czortków region, until 1939 (officially until 1945) in Poland, the seat of the Czortków district of the Tarnopol Province.

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By plane

Nearby airports that serve Chortkiv are Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk.

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By rail

There is a train station here.

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Communication

Worth seeing

• The ruins of the castle in Czortków, exactly in Wygnanka from the beginning of the 17th century.
• Dominican Church of st. Stanislaus. The first church was built together with the monastery. Dominicans in 1619. Its founder was Stanisław Golski, who after his death was buried in the crypt of the church. The temple was visited by Polish kings, incl. Jan Kazimierz or Jan III Sobieski. The present church was built in 1918 in the Gothic Vistula style, designed by Polish architect Jan Sas-Zubrzycki, the authors of the figures of saints were Czesław Stowp and Damian Stankiewicz. In 1941, the Soviets, fleeing east, set fire to the church and set it on fire, ruining the building. After the end of World War II and the departure of Poles from the local lands, the Soviet authorities closed the church and set up a fertilizer warehouse in it, and the valuable Dresden organ located there was destroyed. The church was given to the Dominican Fathers in a state of ruin in 1989. The first parish priest was Father Reginald Wiśniewski from Czortków. Until the end of World War II, the church housed the painting of Our Lady of Czortków, considered a miraculous one. It was saved from destruction by former Polish parishioners who, after forced eviction, transported the painting to the new borders of Poland, and in the 1980s, placed it in the Warsaw church of st. Jacek, where he is to this day. Currently, in the church in Chortkiv, there is a crowned copy of the painting;
• Greek Catholic church. Ascension Day from the 16th century, like the castle, in the former village of Wygnanka with a bell tower from the 17th century;
• Church of the Dormition (Uspieńska)
• church of St. Pokrov (a former Greek Catholic church, now an Orthodox church, UAKP) from the beginning of the 20th century, like the castle, in the former village of Wygnanka; [
• the old town hall with the original square tower built in 1905-1908, work on the construction of the town hall was finally completed in 1924. On the tower there is a clock made at the request of the Polish local authorities in Switzerland (Bern) by the company "Aoasta";

new town hall

• old Catholic (Polish) cemetery with numerous tombstones (preserved, but largely devastated, mausoleum and catacombs of Polish victims of Ukrainian executions from 1918-1919. The ashes of Polish defenders of Czortków from the period of Polish-Ukrainian fights are buried there, including young Poles 16- and 17-year-old secondary school students.
• a new synagogue from the 20th century in the Moorish neo-gothic style.

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• Hotel Anastasia

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