tollgates Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/tollgates/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Fri, 02 Apr 2021 18:45:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://forgottengalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bird-150x150.png tollgates Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/tollgates/ 32 32 ‘Schranken’ & ‘Rogatkas’: Lviv’s Austrian-Era Tollgates https://forgottengalicia.com/schranken-rogatkas-lvivs-austrian-era-tollgates/ https://forgottengalicia.com/schranken-rogatkas-lvivs-austrian-era-tollgates/#comments Sat, 20 Mar 2021 11:45:58 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=10901 The first tollgates (Polish: rogatka; German: Schranke) in Lviv (Lemberg / Lwów) appeared at the end of the eighteenth century when Galicia passed into the possession of the Habsburgs. Until then, customs duties were collected at the city gates that were set within the city walls. In 1777, the dismantling […]

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