Przemyśl Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/przemysl/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:18:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://forgottengalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bird-150x150.png Przemyśl Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/przemysl/ 32 32 Ghost Signs of Przemyśl https://forgottengalicia.com/ghost-signs-przemysl/ https://forgottengalicia.com/ghost-signs-przemysl/#respond Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:18:46 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=492 Today a small city in eastern Poland, Przemyśl (Peremyshl in Ukrainian transliteration) was once a major city in Galicia. Przemyśl’s population consisted of many nationalities, including Ukrainians, Poles, Jews, Germans, and Czechs. According to the Austrian census of 1830, the city was home to 7,538 people of whom 1,508 (20%) […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/ghost-signs-przemysl/feed/ 0 The Pearl on the Sian River: The Ukrainian Narodnyi Dim in Peremyshl https://forgottengalicia.com/the-pearl-on-the-sian-river-the-ukrainian-peoples-home-in-peremyshl/ https://forgottengalicia.com/the-pearl-on-the-sian-river-the-ukrainian-peoples-home-in-peremyshl/#respond Sat, 10 Apr 2021 09:18:19 +0000 https://forgottengalicia.com/?p=11497 By Kasia Komar-Macyńska for Nasze Słowo The history about the uniqueness of the architecture and secrets held by the Narodnyi Dim (National or People’s Home) in Peremyshl (Przemyśl). In 2021, this building will be 117 years old. Exploring its past is like collecting puzzle pieces that were scattered all over the house […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/the-pearl-on-the-sian-river-the-ukrainian-peoples-home-in-peremyshl/feed/ 0 Przemyśl at the Turn of the Century: From the Notes of Feliks Mantel https://forgottengalicia.com/przemysl-at-the-turn-of-the-century-from-the-notes-of-feliks-mantel/ https://forgottengalicia.com/przemysl-at-the-turn-of-the-century-from-the-notes-of-feliks-mantel/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2020 19:04:48 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=10326 Below is a translation from Polish of the article Przemyśl na przełomie wieków …z zapisków Feliksa Mantela Feliks Mantel (1906-1990) came from a family of Przemyśl Jews. His father, Józef Mantel (1875-1920), was a lawyer and a close associate of [lawуer and socialist politician] Herman Lieberman. Józef Piłsudski, who stayed in […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/przemysl-at-the-turn-of-the-century-from-the-notes-of-feliks-mantel/feed/ 4 Historical Manhole Covers: Przemyśl https://forgottengalicia.com/historical-manhole-covers-przemysl/ https://forgottengalicia.com/historical-manhole-covers-przemysl/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2019 08:00:22 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=177 In the part of Galicia that is today Ukraine, dating certain remnants of the past can be relatively easy due to the language of the inscription — anything in Polish dates from before WWII. On the other hand, in a city like Przemyśl where Polish was and still is the […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/historical-manhole-covers-przemysl/feed/ 1 Boot Scrapers: Przemyśl https://forgottengalicia.com/boot-scrapers-przemysl/ https://forgottengalicia.com/boot-scrapers-przemysl/#respond Fri, 19 Apr 2019 16:30:12 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=1344 It was in Przemyśl, a small Galician city situated today in Poland near the Ukrainian border, that I first discovered what a boot scraper was and where my love for these remnants of the past began. I had first seen these odd metal objects in Lviv, but hadn’t given them […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/boot-scrapers-przemysl/feed/ 0 Orienting Us through the Past: Historical Street Signage in Przemyśl https://forgottengalicia.com/orienting-us-through-the-past-historical-street-signage-in-przemysl/ https://forgottengalicia.com/orienting-us-through-the-past-historical-street-signage-in-przemysl/#respond Mon, 25 Mar 2019 19:03:32 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=5403 It is not uncommon in Przemyśl, Poland, to find two, three, or even four different street signs on one building—dating to different periods and regimes: the Austrian Empire, interwar Poland, Communist Poland, and modern Poland. This is because in Poland there was never a campaign to remove Polish inscriptions from […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/orienting-us-through-the-past-historical-street-signage-in-przemysl/feed/ 0 Zakopane Style Architecture in Przemyśl https://forgottengalicia.com/zakopane-style-architecture-in-przemysl/ https://forgottengalicia.com/zakopane-style-architecture-in-przemysl/#comments Sat, 16 Mar 2019 13:10:16 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=5442 Zakopane Style (Styl zakopiański) architecture is inspired by the folk art and architecture of Poland’s highland region known as Podhale. The style was conceived in the 1890s by architect Stanislaw Witkiewicz and named after the region’s main town — Zakopane. The Zakopane Style combines wooden framing and reinforced stone structures, […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/zakopane-style-architecture-in-przemysl/feed/ 1 The Ukrainian Girls’ Institute in Peremyshl https://forgottengalicia.com/the-ukrainian-girls-institute-in-peremyshl/ https://forgottengalicia.com/the-ukrainian-girls-institute-in-peremyshl/#comments Sun, 10 Mar 2019 13:39:19 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=5276 After coming under Austrian rule, Peremyshl (Przemyśl) became a major Ukrainian political, cultural, religious, and education center. By the 1880s the city had become the second-largest center (after Lviv) for Ukrainian secondary education in Galicia. It was home to a number of vocational, elementary, and boarding schools as well as […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/the-ukrainian-girls-institute-in-peremyshl/feed/ 1 Old Postcards of Przemyśl https://forgottengalicia.com/przemysl-in-old-postcards/ https://forgottengalicia.com/przemysl-in-old-postcards/#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2019 15:43:36 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=5073 The small city of Przemyśl (Peremyshl in Ukrainian transliteration) now lies a few miles west of the Polish-Ukrainian border. Under the Austrian Empire, Przemyśl was one of the major Galician towns. Like nearby Lviv, the city’s population consisted of many nationalities, including Ukrainians, Poles, Jews, Germans, and Czechs. According to […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/przemysl-in-old-postcards/feed/ 2 The Galician Railway https://forgottengalicia.com/the-galician-railway/ https://forgottengalicia.com/the-galician-railway/#respond Thu, 11 Oct 2018 14:12:06 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=4320 By Iwona Dakiniewicz The journey to America was long, costly, and tedious. The majority of emigrants came from remote villages. Peasants began their journey with teams of horses or on foot, to get to the nearest railroad station. This article gives you a possibility of locating the railroad station from which […]

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