Lackie Szlacheckie

Lackie Szlacheckie

A big village in the Province of Stanisławów, situated on a beautiful land of lower Pokucie, between Dniester River and Czarnohora Mountains, with the Hoverla and Pop Iwan peaks. Stanisławów - a town founded by Andrzej Potocki, named in honour of his father Stanisław Rewera Potocki. The name of the town was changed to Iwano Frankowsk by the Soviet authorities after 1945. Lackie Szlacheckie was named Łypiwka.

Surroundings of Stanisławów

The village Lackie Szlacheckie is situated 20 km to the south of Stanisławów. It is surrounded with forests and swamps from the east and the west. These are mostly oak forests, with some birches and hornbeams. Alders, willows and aspens grow on soaked grounds, on the rivers. There are only few coniferous trees in Lackie Szlacheckie. The village is extended on a flat, but a little wavy area between 260 and 300 m above the sea level. The climate is temperate, continental with sharp boundaries between seasons of the year.
There were around 800 habitable buildings (with about 4000 inhabitants) in Lackie Szlacheckie before the Second World War. It was a multinational village, with Ukrainians, Ruthenians (scornfully called Kacaps), Poles, Jews, Germans and some Tatar families.
The religious divisions were very clear:
- the Greek Catholics – around 2500 people – all Ukrainians, Ruthenians and some Poles,
- the Latin church – around 1200 people – mostly Poles,
- Judaism – about 200 Jews,
- Protestants – about 100 Germans.

In the thirties of the 20th century there were 12 shops (owned by Jews, Poles and Ukrainians) in the village. One could buy there almost everything: food, commodities of everyday use, clothes, tools etc. Shoemakers, tailors, carpenters, smiths etc. also lived and worked there.

There were three schools in Lackie Szlacheckie: In the first one Polish was the language of instruction. Students were also obliged to learn Ukrainian. In the second school Ukrainian was the language of instruction and the students were obliged to learn Polish. There was also a new school were Poles and Ukrainians learnt.
Companionship in the village was compliant and harmonious. There had been mixed marriages for years, mostly Polish – Ukrainian marriages, which contributed to the new interesting (mostly religious) tradition.

Lackie Szlacheckie

borders on 6 villages: Bratkowce, Markowce, Słobódka (from the east), Worona, Winograd (from the south) and Kamienna.

Strymba and tributary of Worona flow in the middle of this area and two smaller rivers: Rokitna and Uniawa flow on the border of the area.

The village is surrounded with two big forests: Lipówka from the east and Manaster from the west.

The biggest concentration of houses and farm buildings is in the centre of the village, on both sides of Strymba. It was divided into 3 parts: Woroński Kąt (Woroński Corner) (south-western part), Szlachecki Kąt (Noble Corner) (in the middle) and Dolne Ogrody (Lower Gardens) (north-eastern part).
There were also some smaller groups of houses: Studzieniec (with the farm) and Barytówka on the south-eastern end of the village, behind the railway tracks, Mielniki and Osowiec on the south-western end, close to the border with Kamienna, German settlement, Sitanerówka – on both sides of Rokitna river and Baby – west of Poliński stream.

Lwów – Czerniowce railway runs through the eastern part of the village.

The Centre of the village

In the period of the 2nd Republic it was the centre of the cultural and social life in Lackie Szlacheckie. On the sunny, festive days the part of the road between the church and «Dom Strzelecki» - building of halfmilitary organization «Strzelcy» - was a “corso” – a place where the dressed up town residents met and took walks. The churches,the synagogue, the shops, the schools, the "Dom Strzelecki", the municipality, the mill etc. were situated in the centre of the village. In the Polish school, later in the "Dom Strzelecki" and on the river by the mill spectacles, pass time activities were organized. Next to the riflemen’s house the riflemen practised their drill, organized sport competitions and games.

1. Józef Uhornicki,
2. Nykoła Danylec
3. Nykolcio Łucki,
4. Michał Łucki
5. Teofil Łucki,
6. Orest Andruchowicz
7. X. Barteczko
8. Michał Horodyski
9. Piotr Łucki
10. Karol Knihinicki
11. Katarzyna Zuber
12. Maria Lubieniecka
13. Julian Wiśniewski
14.Władysław Skowroński
15. Piotr Hołyński
16. The Church

17. Marcin Jaworski
18. Michał Hołyński
19. X. Stanowska
20. Knihinicki (smith)
21. Jenta (the shop)
22. Ołeksa Bełej (the shop)
23. Szyja (the shop)
24. "Czytalnia"- Ukrainian cultural club, the shop
25. The Orthodox Church
26. Stachewicz (the mill)
27. The municipality, the Ukrainian school
28. The Synagogue
29. Kinsler (the tavern)
30. Polish and Ukrainian scholl
31. "Dom Strzelecki"- Polish cultural club
32. The Polish school.

Citizens and public buildings in the center of the village

Zuber's houses and farm buildings were situated in meander of the Strymba river.

After the deportation of the Germans to Germany in 1940 (according to the agreement between Stalin and Hitler), after killing almost every Jew in the village in 1942, after killing some Poles in 1944 and after the illegal deportation of the rest of the Poles by the communist authorities after 1945, only Ukrainians, immigrated Russians and few Polish families were left in the village, which changed its name to ŁYPIWKA.