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Sudova Vyshnia (, ; ) is a small city in the Yavoriv Raion of the Lviv Oblast of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Sudova Vyshnia urban hromada, one of the of Ukraine. Its population is
The town has a number of Catholic cathedrals and a secondary school, and is a market centre for the surrounding agricultural area. In the past the town contained a horse farm, providing a horse stud service for the area, some of the horse studs being very expensive. On the outskirts there is a hippodrome.
The Wisznia river flows through the town in a westerly direction, eventually joining the San in Poland. The railway line (twin track) leads to Kraków and Silesia in Poland, a main route for carrying coal to the former USSR.
Sudova Vyshnia received its Magdeburg rights town charter in 1368. Originally, it was called Vyshnia (Wisznia), after the river Wisznia, a tributary of the San. The adjective Sudova (Polish: Sądowa) was added in 1545, when it became the seat of the general of the szlachta of Lesser Poland Province of the Polish Crown.
In 1772, the town was annexed by the Habsburg Empire, as part of Habsburg Austrian Galicia, where it remained until late 1918. In the Second Polish Republic, Sądowa Wisznia belonged to Mostyska County, Lwów Voivodeship. During the September 1939 Invasion of Poland, the Battle of Jaworów took place in the area of the town.
When captured by the Soviet Union in the Second World War, the town had a large main square, cobbled and with a podium – suitable for public meetings. Ukrainian SSR, the square was planted over by trees and bushes – no more public meetings. In 1940–1941 and 1944–1959 Sudova Vyshnia was a district seat of the Sudova Vyshnia Raion that eventually was merged with Mostyska Raion.
When under the administration of Nazi Germany during the Second World War, being in the area called Galicia since ancient times, it was not considered occupied but a part of the German Reich. The currency at that time was the Reichsmark, whereas in occupied territories the German administration used the German ostmark. German armed forces included a number of Waffen-SS, considered elite units; there was also an SS Galicia division. Before the war the town had had a Jewish population; only three of its Jews survived the war (two of whom are Frieda Stramer and her brother Dov Stramer), and none remained there afterwards.
After World War II, the Soviet regime used a Catholic church (Church of St Mary) that existed since the 14th century as a warehouse until 1989.
Today, Sudova Vyshnia is one of the centers of the Poles in Ukraine, with a local office of the Association of Polish Culture of the Lviv Land.
Until 18 July 2020, Sudova Vyshnia belonged to Mostyska Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Mostyska Raion was merged into Yavoriv Raion.
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