Vselyub ( be, Уселюб, pl, Wsielub) is an

agrotown An agro-town is an agglomeration in a rural environment with a population of several thousands but whose workforce's main occupation is agriculture. An agro-town also lacks the administrative, commercial and industrial functions that are usually ...

Navahrudak District Novogrudok District ( be, Навагрудскі раён, Наваградзкі раён) - a district (rajon) in the Grodno Region of Belarus. The administrative center is Novogrudok. Notable residents * Fabijan Abrantovič (1884, Vieras ...

, Grodno Region, Belarus. Vselyub is a centre of

selsoviet Selsoviet ( be, сельсавет, r=sieĺsaviet, tr. ''sieĺsaviet''; rus, сельсовет, p=ˈsʲelʲsɐˈvʲɛt, r=selsovet; uk, сільрада, silrada) is a shortened name for a rural council and for the area governed by such a cou ...

''(rural council)'' within the administrative division of Belarus. Before the

Partitions of Poland The Partitions of Poland were three partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place toward the end of the 18th century and ended the existence of the state, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland and Lithuania for 12 ...

, it belonged to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Between the 20th-century world wars, the village was part of Nowogródek Voivodeship of the

Second Polish Republic The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 1918 and 1939. The state was established on 6 November 1918, before the end of ...

. SLOWNIK GEOGRAFICZNY, TOM XIV, 65: "Town of Wsielub"

History

Vselyub (Wsielub) was first mentioned in 1422 (on the seal of its owner, ). Since at least 1434, the settlement and its

serf Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism, and similar systems. It was a condition of debt bondage and indentured servitude with similarities to and differences from slavery, which developed ...

s belonged to Jan's son Andrzej Niemirowicz (Niemirycz). It was inherited by other members of the family. Later it passed into the possession of , voivod of Polatsk. In 1576 it was bought by Prince Mikołaj Radziwiłł. The local Catholic Church, built of brick and mortar, was long thought to have been erected in the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

period of the eighteenth century. But,

archaeological Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

examination in 1980s revealed that the building is essentially late Gothic (15th century). It has been altered by several renovations (the last of them, was done in the Gothic revival style).Баравы, Р. Невядомы помнік беларускай готыкі // Помнікі гісторыі і культуры Беларусі — 2/1987. Its title changed several times in honor of different saints (St. John, St. Casimir, etc.) During World War II, the 40 Jewish families who lived in the town were rounded up and summarily executed by the Nazis. "Catholic students clean up Jewish cemetery"
''Yeshiva World News,'' 3 July 2006

References

{{reflist, 2 Agrotowns in Belarus Populated places in Grodno Region Novogrudsky Uyezd Nowogródek Voivodeship (1919–1939) Holocaust locations in Belarus