Shehyni ( uk, Шегині, pl, Szeginie) is a village of
Yavoriv Raion in
Lviv Oblast of western
Ukraine. It hosts the administration of
Shehyni rural hromada, one of the
hromada
A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territorial community, translit=terytorialna hromada) is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality. It was established by the Government of Ukra ...
s of Ukraine.
Located at the border with Poland, it is best known as the site of the
Medyka-
Shehyni (border checkpoint).
History
The village, situated 14 km east of the city of
Przemyśl
Przemyśl (; yi, פשעמישל, Pshemishl; uk, Перемишль, Peremyshl; german: Premissel) is a city in southeastern Poland with 58,721 inhabitants, as of December 2021. In 1999, it became part of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship; it was pr ...
was first mentioned in 1515 in a royal charter under the name of Szechinie.
For most of its existence the village belonged to the Land of Przemyśl, itself part of
Ruthenian Voivodeship
The Ruthenian Voivodeship (Latin: ''Palatinatus russiae'', Polish: ''Województwo ruskie'', Ukrainian: ''Руське воєводство'', romanized: ''Ruske voievodstvo''), also called Rus’ voivodeship, was a voivodeship of the Crown of ...
of the Kingdom of Poland and then (since 1772) Austrian
Galicia
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** Gallaecia, a Roman province
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.
From the very beginning the village belonged to the so-called
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of estates including Medyka, Pozdziacz, Torki and Buców, centred on the manor in Medyka, all based on a local variant of
Magdeburg law, dubbed ''Ruthenian law''.
Initially the peasants settled there were tasked with taking care of the royal stables in Medyka; with time their duty towards the owner of Medyka manor was modified to simple
serfdom, with yearly
rent paid in grain.
The village had a
voigt Voigt (mainly written Vogt, also Voight) is a German surname, and may refer to:
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*Angela Voigt, East German long jumper
*Christian August Voigt (1808–1890), Austrian anatomist
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(a certain Konarski) as late as 1565, and was populated by no more than 7 families of
peasants.
By 1589 the village had 48 male inhabitants (eligible for
levy) and two
inns paying a yearly rent of 78
zlotys.
Some time before that date a
mill and a
fish pond
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Fish ponds are a classical g ...
were constructed in the village.
As part of the
Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria in 1880 there were only a handful of houses along the road linking Przemyśl with Mościska (today
Mostyska), with time the village grew to 1036 inhabitants (including 825
Ruthenians, 237
Poles
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and 63
Jews).
Until 18 July 2020, Shehyni belonged to
Mostyska Raion
Mostyska Raion ( uk, Мостиський район) was a raion (district) in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center was Mostyska. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which ...
. 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 Mostyska Raion was merged into Yavoriv Raion.
Infrastructure
Beside the border checkpoint, the village has train station
Mostyska–Derzhkordon (literally meaning Mostyska-State Border). Through Shehyni also passes a road .
Notes
References
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Villages in Yavoriv Raion