Comments on: Old Postcards of Przemyśl https://forgottengalicia.com/przemysl-in-old-postcards/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Wed, 29 Jan 2020 09:43:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Areta https://forgottengalicia.com/przemysl-in-old-postcards/#comment-1122 Fri, 01 Feb 2019 17:22:11 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=5073#comment-1122 In reply to Brian W. from Pennsylvania.

Przemyśl’s old town is still quite charming. Today it is a very quiet and small city, but many beautiful buildings and churches remain. And there is a nice view from the castle and some beautiful villas near the river. I enjoy visiting it very much, especially as several generations of my family lived there. And fortunately there is now a quick connection from Lviv to Przemyśl.

]]> By: Brian W. from Pennsylvania https://forgottengalicia.com/przemysl-in-old-postcards/#comment-1119 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:20:39 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=5073#comment-1119 These wonderful vintage postcards peaked my interest in what my ancestors might have saw and the places they visited. My ancestors lived in the region in the mid to later part of the 19th century, so it’s the period right before when these photomontage postcards were created. They were Polish and Austrian German living in a German colony in Galicia.

Last fall I toured L’viv and walked the streets of my ancestral village of Munchenthal, present day Muzhylovychi, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, about an hour west of L’viv by car.

By my rough estimates, if Przemyśl is one and a half days by horse and carriage (75km) west of Muzhylovychi, possibly my ancestors would have visited Przemyśl, while under the Austrian Hungarian Empire rule, when there were no borders between these towns.

It looks beautiful from these postcards. I look forward to visiting Przemyśl on my next trip to the region. Hopefully, the present day city has retained some of the old world charm shown in these postcards.

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