Chotyniec

Chotyniec
Chotyniec
—  Village  —
Greek Catholic church
Chotyniec is located in Poland
Chotyniec
Coordinates: 49°57′N 23°1′E / 49.95°N 23.017°E / 49.95; 23.017
Country  Poland
Voivodeship Subcarpathian
County Jarosław
Gmina Gmina Radymno
Population 340

Chotyniec [xɔˈtɨɲet​͡s] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Radymno, within Jarosław County, in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship of south-eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine. It lies approximately 15 kilometres (9 mi) east of Radymno, 26 km (16 mi) east of Jarosław, and 74 km (46 mi) east of the regional capital Rzeszów.[1] It lies on the Route of Wooden Architecture.

The village has a population of 340. Before the Second World War, the population of Chotyniec was mainly Ukrainian. After Operation Vistula in 1947, only 740 inhabitants were left. After 1956, a number of Ukrainian families started to return.

Cerkiew (Wooden Church) of the Holy Mother of God

This Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, probably founded in 1617, is one of the few still active Greek Catholic churches in Poland that survived both WWII and the deportations afterwards. The church has been renovated a number of times, a.o. in 1733 and 1858, and was closed from 1925 until 1947. It then became a Roman Catholic church until somewhere in the 1980s, when it was abandoned. After the fall of Poland's communist regime it became a Ukrainian Greek Catholic church again. It was extensively restored between 1991 and 1994, mostly (paid for by) local parishers.

The building is of a distinguishing originality because of its harmonious, solid appearance. Inside, a complete iconostasis can be seen, and a Baroque painting of the last judgment from 1735.

References

Coordinates: 49°57′N 23°1′E / 49.95°N 23.017°E / 49.95; 23.017


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