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The following article focuses on the territorial analysis of the diocese of Chełm and Lublin from 1790 to the foundation of the diocese of Lublin by Pope Pius VII in the papal bull on 23 September 1805. The territorial structure of this diocese was formed from the two bigger and two smaller church administrative units, as in 1790 it encompassed some territory which belonged to the Metropolis of Lvov-the diocese of Chełm (three deaneries), as well as most of the Archdeanery of Lublin, which belonged to the diocese of Kraków, the Metropolis of Gniezno(apart from the deanery of Solec). From the latter diocese and metropolis, the deanery of Stężyca (from the deanery of Kielce) and the deanery of Urzędów (from the archdeanery of Zawichost) were also incorporated to the diocese of Chełm and Lublin. Presenting the particular parts of the diocese of Chełm and Lublin created in 1790, the author also describes the years before its foundation, because the analysis of the territorial structures both the diocese of Chełm- erected in 14 the century- and the archdeanery of Lublin-created in 12th century-covers even the beginnings of the 14th century. In addition, in this article an attempt has been made to explain the diocese name controversy –created in 1790- and the titles of its first ordinary bishops: Maciej Garnysz and Wojciech Skarszewski. The boundaries of the diocese of Chełm and Lublin underwent some changes over time due to the partitions of Poland. That is why the following article is accompanied by a few maps, which can help to illustrate each and every modification to the boundaries of the diocese of Chełm and Lublin and to show its parts along with the marked capitals of the deaneries.
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W artykule szkicuję obraz życia codziennego żydowskich mieszkańców Chełma w 1928 r., wykorzystując informacje zawarte w stałej rubryce Fun Chełm un umgegent (Z Chełma i okolicy), publikowanej na łamach tygodnika „Chełmer Sztyme” (Głos Chełma). Czasopismo ukazywało się w latach 1924–1939, w artykule koncentruję się jednak na jednym roczniku – 1928. Ograniczenie się do wybranej rubryki jednego rocznika pozwoliło mi na wstępne rozpoznanie języka gazety i jej perspektywy w opisywaniu wycinka miejskiej rzeczywistości. Tekst ma charakter przyczynkarski i jego głównym celem jest rekonesans możliwości wykorzystania prasy w tworzeniu monografii chełmskiej społeczności żydowskiej. The aim of this article is to outline everyday life of Jewish inhabitants of Chełm in 1928, on the basis of the column “Fun Chełm un umgegent” (From Chełm and Its Neighbourhood) published in the Khelemer Shtime (The Voice of Chełm) weekly. The newspaper was issued between 1924 and 1939, but for the purpose of this paper I have decided to focus on issues from one year exclusively – 1928. This restraint enables to examine magazine’s language and its perspective in the town’s depiction. Additional goal of this paper is to identify the possibility of the use of Yiddish press in developing a monograph, devoted to Jewish inhabitants of Chełm in the inter-war period, in the field of social history.
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Badania archeologiczne nad średniowiecznym i nowożytnym Chełmem prowadzone są od ponad 100 lat, ale szczególnie istotnych informacji pozyskano w ostatniej dekadzie. Pracami wykopaliskowymi objęto teren Góry Katedralnej z grodem książęcym, jak i Stare Miasto z osadnictwem od XIII do XX wieku. W 2009 r. badania objęły Pl. E. Łuczkowskiego przy budynku dawnego ratusza, którego początki sięgają wieku XIV lub pocz. XV. W jednym z wykopów odkryto dwie hakownice żelazne. Była to ręczna broń palna, której lufy zaopatrywano w pionowo skierowany ku dołowi hak. Używano ich do obrony murów miejskich oraz zamkowych. Zarówno kontekst archeologiczny odkrycia, jak i parametry hakownic pozwalają je datować na XVI stulecie, najpewniej jego 1 poł. Jednak z uwagi na swój charakter mogły one pozostawać w użyciu dłużej, aż po XVII w. Odkrycie hakownic z Chełma pozwoliło na ich zestawienie i porównanie z innymi tego rodzaju egzemplarzami z terenu Europy Środkowej.
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Archaeological research on mediaeval and modern Chełm has been carried out for more than 100 years, but some particularly important information has been recovered in the last decade. Excavations have been carried out on the Cathedral mound, and likewise on the Old City on the settlement stretching from the 13th to the 20th century. In the year 2009 research was carried out in E. Łuczkowskiego Square, on the building which was the old Town Hall, whose beginnings stretch back to the 14th century or at least the beginning of the 15th. In one of the trenches two iron hackbuts were discovered. They were a type of hand-held firearm, in which the barrel was equipped with a vertical hook running downwards. They were used for the defence of town or castle walls. The archaeological context of the finds, as well as the diagnostic features of the hackbuts, point to a date in the 16th century, most probably in the first half. Considering the use to which these weapons report, however, they could have remained in use longer, until the 17th century. The find of the Chełm hackbuts allow us to compare them with other examples found in Central Europe.
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Remains of three medieval stone towers are curiosities of the Chełm Land. They are located on the Cathedral Hill in Chełm, in Chełm-Bieławin and in Stołpie. The latter is the only one which has survived throughout the centuries in its almost original form. In contrast, the tower from Bieławin has been almost completely destroyed. And the remains of the tower (or towers) from the Cathedral Hill in Chełm are hidden among ruins of the presently excavated residence complex of King Daniel of Galicia from the 13th century. The stone tower in Stołpie is located less than 8 kilometres west of Chełm. Although archaeological excavations of the tower were initiated over 100 years ago, it has been permanently an object of interest. Excavations which took place in the years 2003–2005 revealed that the tower together with an accompanying embankment were situated inside a denudation niche with numerous springs. Their intensity of water flow is still significant (fig. 1). The tower measures 6.33 x 5.74 metres, is maximally 18.8 metres in preserved height and its interior is diverse in shape. The lower part of the interior (the filled-in storey) resembles the form of a polygon which turns into a cylindrical shape above the ground level and into an octagon on the top storey (fig. 2). Depending on the storeys, the thickness of the walls varies between 1.3 to 1.9 metres. The tower is part of a larger (two-part) building complex, and the second part is hidden under the earthen embankment adjacent to the tower. A rectangular stone platform measuring 12.5 x 15.4 metres has been identified there, which rises to a height of approximately 2.5 metres above the ground level. The tower stands obliquely in the south-east corner of the platform (fig. 3). The area of the courtyard was lined with stone slabs, some of which are still visible in situ. A wooden buildings partially protruding outside the stone platform stood on the edges of the stone structure. The entrance to the courtyard was situated in the north-east part of the embankment. Excavations have shown that the tower created a harmonious whole with the stone rectangular platform and they both were part of the same building program (fig. 4). Four kilometres further east, in Chełm-Bieławin, relics of another stone tower are visible in the Uherka River valley (fig. 10). It was built on a sandbank, far from modern urban development. The tower had been situated on the area of older settlement from the first centuries of our era and from the early Middle Ages, especially from the 9th and 10th centuries. The remains of the tower from Bieławin are visible today in the form of rectangular contour reconstructed to a high of 2 metres above the ground level, made of sandstone boulders (cf. fig. 8). But even in the 2nd half of the 19th century the rectangular outline of its western wall, indicating at least a four-storey building, was visible on the Uherka River's floodplain. A semicircular outline of an arched vault had been visible on the last but one storey then (fig. 9). The tower's external dimensions were 11.40 x 11.80 metres, the thickness of the walls ranged from 1.60 to 1.75 metres. It was therefore twice as big as the tower from Stołpie. In contrast to the latter, the interior's outline of the tower from Bieławin was rectangular. The height of the tower would reach more than 16 metres (Rappoport 1952, 205). It was built of basal chalks, green glauconites (used mainly as frames of window and door openings) and Tertiary shell conglomerates. These are broken stones of irregular shapes, but some of them are also sorted and intentionally worked. Bricks with finger marks and glazed ceramic tiles were used to decorate the interior (Ruszkowska 1990). Three kilometres further, in the centre of the modern city, there are relics of next towers (cf. Buko 2005). Excavations from previous years and the verification excavations from the years 2010-2012 revealed a stone tower. It was a rectangular outline of a stone building with dimensions of 12 x 12 metres (Zin, Grabski 1967, 727), which was built in walls of a palace building (cf. fig. 13). The southern wall with a length of 11.05 metres in the SW-SE axis was revealed in whole. Fragments of the western and eastern walls with a length of circa 2.3 metres have been also excavated. The rest of the building still lies beneath the mound. It was established that the width of the wall varies from 1.5 to 1.7 metres depending on the size of the used stones, but mainly is 1.6 metres. Faces of the wall were exposed to a depth of 60-80 centimetres, and in archaeological excavations to a depth of about 1 metre. The wall was built of flat, grey Tertiary sandstones. The wall faces were made of equal, flat stones connected to each other at a width of 30-40 centimetres and bonded with white lime mortar. The large number of green glauconite sandstones, bricks and glazed ceramic tiles were used. In the absence of relevant stratification evidences, it can only be presumed that after the fire in 1257 the construction of additional chalky band was completed. At the same time there had been a change in the structure of the tower. The problem of dating of the aforementioned buildings is a key issue. In the case of the tower from Stołpie, it was built probably before the end of the 12th century and it functioned at the latest to the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries or to the beginning of the 14th century. Sacred character of the tower is clearly marked. It is expressed by characteristic location near water springs and interior design of the tower as well as by the chapel placed on the top floor.(Buko 2009: 116 and next; see further bibliography there). It remains to be determined for whom the alleged monastery tower was built. The idea of monastery towers was widespread in the Mediterranean region, especially in its eastern part, where similar buildings had a long tradition from the early Christian period (the hermitic idea) until the end of the Middle Ages. From there, the idea of similar structures radiated to other areas, including Italy, Bulgaria and Ruthenia. Strong relationships of rulers of Galicia with the court of the Polish Piasts, the Hungarian court and the Byzantine Empire could result in building initiatives coming from different cultural backgrounds. Many evidences indicate that the idea of a private ducal foundation – associated with the Romanovich dynasty – in this case is highly probable. The tower from Stołpie distinctly differs from the other two towers in terms of form, chronology and its attributed function. On the other hand, there are many similarities between the other two towers. Their plans are similar – the rectangular outlines with similar length and width of the walls. And yet both towers had different context and relation to the immediate environment. Speaking about the building from Bieławin, it is a detached tower standing on one of many sandbanks of the Garka River's valley. The case of the tower from Chełm is different. It was built on the top of the northern walls of the King Daniel's palace, so it was partly built in older residential buildings (cf. fig. 13, 14). The question is whether these towers were built at the same time or in a specific chronological sequence, and what function should be assigned to them. In the light of the research to date, the tower from Stołpie seems to be the oldest building, which could be built as early as in the time of Duke Roman (the end of the 12th century). Later, in the 13th century, it could be rebuilt and fulfil the role of a private religious place for someone of noble birth. There are definitely fewer arguments to determine the chronological sequence of the other two towers from Chełm. It appears nevertheless that the tower from the Cathedral Hill in Chełm could be built earlier, for the reason that only in the late 1230s large building investments were initiated in the city by Duke Daniel. The chronology of the tower from Bieławin is probably within the same chronological horizon. At the current status of research, there are no tangible arguments to undermine this thesis. However, it is difficult to determine whether the tower from Bieławin was built during the life of Daniel, or after his death. Regardless of further answers to these and many other questions, it is already clear that this is an architectural complex of at least three stone towers from the 13th century, which is a cultural and architectural phenomenon in this part of Europe. While it is easiest to attribute a symbolic significance, related to the sacred sphere, to the tower from Stołpie, the tower from the Cathedral Hill in Chełm was primarily a manifestation of the ducal rule. Such purpose of the tower had appeared on pages of the chronicle of Galicia-Volhynia. And the third tower, located almost midway between Chełm and Stołpie, had probably a military significance
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First archaeological research near Cholm took place at the beginning of the 20th century and was led by Piotr Pokryshkin (1870–1922) from the Imperial Archaeological Commission (Petersburg, Russia). That research played a major role in the protection of the medieval architectural traces of the past existence of the Orthodox diocese of Cholm and the Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia. Activity of Pokryshkin – a lay person and a recognised scientist – contributed in a significant way to the survival of traces of the Orthodox identity and Ruthenian ethnicity in the land of Cholm. Pokryshkin’s legacy is an example of the unique role of laity in the protection of Orthodox identity and traditions.
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The metropolitan Ilarion Ohiienko (1882–1972) was prominent Ukrainian Orthodox cleric, linguist, church historian, and cultural figure. In May 1937 the wife of Prof. Ivan Ohiienko died. And soon, in 1940, upon the recommendation of the Ukrainian Church Rada, the Council of the Orthodox Church in the Generalgouvernement, headed by metropolitan Dionisii Valedynskyi, elected Prof. I. Ohienko as Bishop of Kholm and Pidliashia. The Metropolitan of Warsaw Dionisii tonsured Ivan Ohiienko as a monk at St. Onuphrius monastery in Jableczna on October 9, 1940, giving him the name of Ilarion. The next day, Metropolitan Dionisii ordained him a deacon, and on October 11 his ordination as hieromonk took place, as well as his promotion to the rank of archimandrite. The episcopal nomination of archimandrite Ilarion took place in the Kholm Cathedral on October 19, 1940 and his episcopal ordination took place the next day, presided by Metropolitan Dionisii of Warsaw. Ohiienko began to Ukrainianize the Orthodoxy in the Kholm region, by introducing Ukrainian practices in the church rite and the use of Ukrainian in services and ordaining several Ukrainian priests. In August 1951 he was elected metropolitan of Winnipeg and head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada.
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Budynek dawnego kolegium pijarów w Chełmie – ulokowany przy ulicy Lubelskiej, nieopodal późnobarokowego kościoła Rozesłania Świętych Apostołów – stanowi obecnie siedzibę Muzeum Ziemi Chełmskiej im. Wiktora Ambroziewicza. Dotychczas nie wzbudzał większego zainteresowania badaczy i – jawiąc się jako dzieło architektury pozbawione wyrazistych cech stylowych – nie był przedmiotem naukowej refleksji. Sytuację tę zmienia ujawnienie w zbiorach Archivio Generale delle Scuole Pie w Rzymie zachowanego rysunku z 1698 roku, przedstawiającego ów budynek w rzucie poziomym i w ujęciu aksonometrycznym. Informacje zawarte w dokumentach pisanych przechowywanych w tymże archiwum pozwalają ustalić czas budowy na lata 1698-1700. Projekt dowodzi, że zachowany gmach nie zmienił zasadniczo swej bryły, jednopiętrowej, założonej na planie litery H. Innowacje ograniczyły się tylko do partii dachu nad korpusem głównym, który pierwotnie był dachem krakowskim, oraz do dokonanego w latach 1720-1724 przedłużenia jednego z bocznych skrzydeł (tak by kolegium połączyć z kościołem). Przekształcenia późniejsze nie naruszyły też w sposób zasadniczy podziałów wewnętrznych, w dwuipółtraktowym korpusie głównym, z wprowadzonym tam komunikacyjnym układem krzyżowo-korytarzowym, oraz w jednotraktowych skrzydłach bocznych. Kształt budowli tudzież surowość opracowania jej elewacji, reprezentujących barok w jego odmianie klasycyzującej, wskazują na osobę projektanta – to zapewne Józef Piola, architekt działający w Warszawie na przełomie XVII i XVIII wieku, realizujący podówczas na zlecenie zakonu pijarów również ich zespół kościelno-klasztorny w Szczuczynie. Natomiast dokonane w 1 połowie XVIII wieku przedłużenie skrzydła kolegium należy najpewniej wiązać z osobą innego stołecznego architekta – Karola Antoniego Baya, który w tym samym czasie, wraz ze swym zięciem, Vincenzo Rachettim, także architektem, wykonywał dla pijarów z Chełma oszacowanie dochodowości ich parceli położonej na przedmieściach miasta Lublina. Gmach w Chełmie pełnił funkcję zakonnego kolegium, a w pewnych okresach także profesorium, w którym wyższe nauki z filozofii pobierali pijarscy klerycy. Wbrew pojawiającym się sugestiom nigdy nie mieściła się w nim prowadzona przez pijarów szkoła publiczna. Ta pojawiła się tutaj – jako gimnazjum rosyjskie – dopiero po powstaniu styczniowym i kasacie domu zakonnego Scholarum Piarum.
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The building of the old College of Piarist in Chełm – located on Lubelska Street, near the late baroque Church of Holy Apostles the Messengers – is now the seat of the Wiktor Ambroziewicz Chełm Land Museum. Until now, it has not raised much interest among researchers and – appearing as a work of architecture devoid of expressive style features – has not been the subject of scientific reflection. This situation is changed by the disclosure of the preserved drawing from 1698, showing the building in a horizontal projection and axonometric view, stored in the Archivio Generale delle Scuole Pie in Rome. The information contained in written documents kept there allow to determine the time of construction of the building for the years 1698-1700. The project proves that the preserved edifice did not change substantially its one-story block, set on the plan of the letter H. The innovations concerned only the roof part over the main body, which was originally the Krakow roof, and the extension of one of the side wings in 1720-1724 (so that the college was connected to the church). Neither did the subsequent transformations significantly affect the internal divisions, be it in the two-and-a-half tract main corpus, with the cross-corridor communication system introduced therein, or in the single tract side wings. The shape of the building and the severity of the development of its facade, representing the baroque in its classicizing version, suggests the designer – Giuseppe Piola, an architect working in Warsaw at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, building, at the request of the Piarist order, also their church and monastery complex in Szczuczyn. However, the extension of the college wing made in the first half of the 18th century should probably be associated with the person of another capital architect – Carlo Antonio Bay, who at the same time, together with his son-in-law, Vincenzo Rachetti, also an architect, made calculations for the Piarist priests from Chełm for the profitability of their parcel located in the suburbs of the city of Lublin. The building in Chełm was a monastic college, and at certain times also a “profesorium”, in which Piarist clerics learned philosophy at a higher level of education. Contrary to some suggestions, there was never a public school run by the Piarists in this building. It was founded – as a Russian gymnasium – only after the January Uprising and the dissolution of the Scholarum Piarum community.
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Philip Diaczan (1831–1906) was one of the vital figures within the Russophiles of Galicia, a popular pro-Russian, anti-Polish movement in Austria-Hungary. Having studied in Vienna under Franc Miklosic, in 1858 he started his career as a Greek Catholic priest and a gymnasium teacher in Lviv and Berezhany, specializing in classical languages. In 1866, he moved to the Kingdom of Poland and soon led a mass exodus of Greek Catholic clergy fleeing to Russia in order to embrace better living conditions, and, eventually, join the Orthodox Church in 1875. A gymnasium teacher of classics, first in Chełm, then in Warsaw, in 1874 he was given a professorship at the University of Warsaw, which he held onto until 1903. Lacking in professional competence, he became the very epitome of a social climber and an apparatchik of the superintendent Alexander Apukhtin, giving a bad name to the Imperial University as a place purportedly full of intrigue and devoted to the Russification of Poles instead of spreading academic knowledge.
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