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“All the people in this city are engaged in merchants and trade and are looking for the most income from traveling by canoe.”
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Since 1940, David-Haradok has been considered the second largest city in the Stolin district of the Brest region, Belarus.
The founding of the city (1100) is associated with Prince David, the grandson of Yaroslav the Wise. The name of the city is also on behalf of the prince (“Gorodok”, “Gorodok Davydov”, “Davyd-Gorodok”), therefore the inhabitants call themselves “gorodok”.
The location of the town on the Goryn River determined the occupation of its inhabitants - trade associated with the river port, the manufacture of river vessels. As early as the beginning of the 16th century. the city became the trading center of the Volyn-Podolsky region. Along the Goryn and further along the Pripyat and the Dnieper, timber was rafted, bread, agricultural products, resin, tar and other goods were transported from the Volyn province to Kiev, and through the Oginsky water system to the Neman and further to the Baltic. It is no coincidence that on January 22, 1796, David-Gorodok was given the appropriate coat of arms: on a black background - a river with a golden pier, two gates on the sides and a golden ship approaching, loaded with goods tied in three bales.
The famous traveler P.P. Semyonov in the book "Picturesque Russia" in 1882 wrote about David-Gorodok:
“Trade is quite significant, where neighboring residents flock from distant places to sell or transfer to commission agents for delivery to other cities their home-made preparations, such as ham, dried fish, game in various forms, mushrooms, dried cream, etc. , but the main thing that the shoemakers of David-Gorodok were famous for was high boots with long tops. All this is annually brought to Vilna, Warsaw and other cities. Local residents are also known for the excellent finish of wicker chaises…”.
A Jewish home at the Edge of the Town
The Synagogue of the Stoliner Hasidim
Bet-Midrash (Studyhouse) of the Rabbis
The commercial center of David-Horodok
The new cemetery in David-Horodok
The cantor of the town with his singers
David-Horodok "s first-string soccer team, 1937. Right to left: Nachman (Chaneh) Yonush, Yeshayahu Magidovich, Yiztchak (Idel) Friedman, ?, ?, Shlomoh Kolozny, ?, Ya"akov Kolozny
Preparation group in Lisovitch 1931
Crowd from David-Horodok sending off a family making aliyah
A corner of the new market in David-Horodok
Nest of the Hashomer Hatzair in David-Horodok, 1932
Funeral of Itzhak-Leib Zager, David-Horodok - 1939
Performance of the The Dybbuk by the young amateurs of David-Horodok, 1938
The Greble Street in David-Horodok
The soccer team Hako"ah in David-Horodok in 1927
The sawmill of Moche Rimar in David-Horodok. In the picture is Moche Rimar with some of his family members and supervisors
The Great Bet-Midrash (Religious Studyhouse)
Jews of David-Haradok and the Radziwills
“Each inhabitant of Davyd-Haradok was unique. Simple, unpretentious, poor, but always optimistic - David-Gorodchuks had a special sense of humor and manners. The most religious did not wear peys and caftans; the most intelligent spoke their native language. Many had nicknames such as Abram the Baystryuk, Shaya the Emperor, David the Magnificent, Yud the Scientist, etc.”
Jews first appeared in Davyd-Haradok in the 14th-15th centuries, but especially actively began to settle in the period from 1521 to 1551, when the place was in the possession of Bona Sforza, the Queen of Poland and the Grand Duchess of Lithuania. The legal status of the Jews was legalized in the Statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1588.
The Davidgorodok Jews were subordinate to the qahal in Pinsk. The first mention of the community, referring to 1667, is due to the fact that the Pinsk Kahal collected loan security from Jewish communities, one of which was the Jewry of David-Haradok. After the uprising of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, the inhabitants of the town were in a difficult financial situation, which resulted in a conflict between the local and Pinsk Jewish communities, which was resolved due to the intervention of the Radziwills - thanks to their patronage, a separate kahal was founded in David-Haradok.
The center of Radziwill's possessions in Polissya - David-Haradok - was not a major craft center, however, in the 17th century. handicraft was represented in the city by 35 different specialties, for example: in the inventory of 1670, a shoe shop master is mentioned, and in 1692, a fishing shop master. The administrative reform of Prince Radziwill, as a result of which all the inhabitants of the town were transferred to the category of serfs, did not affect the Jews, allowing them to continue to engage in crafts and trade, keep shops, pharmacies, sawmills, hairdressers, all kinds of workshops, a bathhouse.
Jewish (Russian) bath
“There was a certain charm in the David-Gorodok bathhouse. Before my eyes is a long building of red brick, tall narrow windows framed with small squares of glass. In the first hallway lay a prepared pile of branches. (...) From there, the door led to the “whipping” bathhouse, or, as it was also called, the “steam room”, which was a completely different world. (…)
(…) Thick steam mingled with the stench of dirty laundry hanging from sticks inserted into the rafters above. Not every heart can handle it. Indeed, for this reason, such a fragile Jew as Boruch the planter never burned with the desire to take a steam bath in David Gorodok's "steam room".
The only one who felt better there than at home was Moishe Mordechai Fat, Zelig's son. He was never too hot. When he came along with Meyer Herschel the Butcher, everything really happened with enthusiasm. At first, Meyer Gershl shouted in a hoarse voice: "Pour another bucket!". It takes great skill to pour a bucket of water over boiling hot rocks in a furnace, and Moishe the Fat was an expert. The heat grew with each bucket. Steam could be cut with a knife. It was so thick that a person could simply suffocate. At that moment, they both climbed to the highest shelf and began their work. They waved brooms to drive away the steam. A blow, another blow, and a third, and a fourth, and a fifth. “Ah, ah, ah,” grunted one of them with great pleasure. “Higher… here, here, here… stronger… even stronger…. Okay… okay… ah…”
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The heyday of the Jewish community in the XIX-XX centuries.
The Jewish population in David-Gorodok was constantly growing. If in 1782 there was one synagogue in the town, then in 1865 their number increased to three, and at the beginning of the 20th century. in David-Gorodok there were already 6 synagogues, including one of Karlin-Stolin Hasidim, the so-called. shtibl. The founder of the Hasidic dynasty in Gorodok in the middle of the XIX century. was Zeev-Wolf Ginzburg (the last representative of this dynasty, Moshe Ginzburg, died during the Holocaust). However, despite the proximity of Pinsk, the Hasidim did not exert much influence on the Jewish population in Davyd-Haradok. Local Jews revered Rabbi Eliyahu ben Solomon Zalman, the Vilna Gaon, who opposed the Hasidic movement, and even in the twentieth century. his portrait hung in many Jewish homes.
The presence in the town of an elementary Jewish school - cheder - in which education was conducted in Yiddish, the native language for students, allowed all Jewish families, even the most needy, to fulfill their religious duty - to teach their sons the Law and prayers. It is known that in addition to heders, two melameds taught in David-Gorodok, and in 1917-1920. in the town there was a Tarbut school with teaching in Hebrew, many of whose graduates left for big cities to receive higher education.
Achievements of scientific and technological progress of the late XIX - early XX centuries. brought changes to the life of the town. The city stepped over to the left side of the river. Goryn, where two water mills were built on the old river (it is no coincidence that the left bank of the city is still called Melniki). In addition, workshops were opened in the city, in which pots, jugs, and dishes for wineries were made from sheet copper. The local distillery annually produced about 450 buckets of "Peysakhov" vodka according to a traditional Jewish recipe.
The first owners of cargo and passenger ships also appeared. A small passenger-and-freight steamer "Leontina" used to deliver raw materials from Volhynia to Finkelstein's tannery. Many residents worked at the local shipyard, which was owned by the Jew Mocha. In addition, the enterprising Jews of David-Haradok went to Warsaw in the summer to sell ice cream.
One day, the Russian East Asian Shipping Company, whose ships were cruising along the Goryn River, turned to the Minsk governor with a request to allow the appointment of the tradesman Movsha Girshev Elperin as an agent of the Shipping Company for the sale of passenger tickets in the David-Gorodok district and the towns of Luninets and Stolin of the Pinsk district. The collected information about Elperin's personality was favorable, however, Movsha Girshevich was nevertheless removed from business (according to the results of correspondence dated June 2, 1913), because. According to the Pinsk district police officer, the agents of the shipping company were accomplices in the secret emigration of peasants abroad, and the population of the district did not need such persons.
In 1904, the first bookstore was opened in David-Gorodok, owned by Shlyoma Meerovich Zagorodsky (the shop was located in his own house on Velimichskaya Street), and in 1910, the merchant Solomon Bentsianov Kozel from Mozyr opened a printing office in the town and set up a typewriter. There were two libraries in the city with the latest editions, because. books were in great demand among the townspeople.
The Jewish youth of David-Haradok was well organized thanks to the development of sports. The first Jewish sports team "Kraft" (power) was founded in 1928, two years later the Maccabi club was founded.
Jewish medical professionals
Jews took an active part in the development of the medical service sector. Initially, they could freely open pharmacies, hospitals, dental offices, receive higher and secondary medical education. However, a noticeable increase in their number among the owners, pharmacists and pharmacy managers, free practitioners, dentists and paramedics, nurses, veterinarians and barbers made the authorities wary. Competition with the Jews, according to officials, could lead to a monopoly in the field of healthcare, and therefore by the beginning of the 20th century. the rights of Jewish physicians were significantly limited.
At the end of the 80s of the nineteenth century. seven full-time doctors served in the Mozyr district, including Zalman Mordukhovich Shereshevsky from David-Gorodok. Some duties of a healer (bleeding, leeches, etc.) could be performed by barbers. Hairdressing services in the town were provided by the townspeople Nisel and Shmerko Glinsky.
Pharmacies in the town were owned by Yudovich and Kaplinsky. Yudovich's wife was a pharmacist and worked in a pharmacy. During the war, she gave medicine to the partisans, for which she was shot by order of the gebitskommissar.
The Second World War
On the eve of the war, about 3,000 Jews lived in the city.
July 7, 1941 David-Haradok was occupied by German troops. On August 10, 1941, the male Jewish population over the age of 14 was shot in the Khinovsk-Gorki tract. About 100 Jews of David-Haradok managed to escape, some of them joined the partisans.
After the tragedy in the Khinovsk tract, all the Jews of David-Gorodok were sent on foot to the overcrowded ghetto of Stolin. Some of the people were quartered, some were sheltered by relatives and acquaintances. The rest at the beginning of 1942 were returned to David-Gorodok, where on the right bank of the river. Senezhka, (a tributary of the Goryn River), a territory for the ghetto had already been allocated (between the streets of Yukhnevich, Lermontov, Gorky). The number of prisoners, among whom were also residents of the villages of Olshany (about 40 hours) and Semigostichi (about ten hours), was 1.2 thousand, among them there were only 30 men. The liquidation of the ghetto was carried out on September 10, 1942.
Jewish houses and synagogues were dismantled by the Nazis in order to pave the road David-Haradok - Lokhva (retreat route for German troops).
Fragments of the former shtetl
As a rule, Jews lived in the central part of the city. Their houses can be recognized by such a characteristic feature as multifunctionality. Jewish houses often combined a living space with a shop, a workshop, a warehouse, and the door, unlike the doors of the houses of Christian neighbors, went out onto the street. Before the war, Jewish houses could be distinguished from Orthodox houses by the fact that the Orthodox covered their houses with straw, and the Jews with shingles.
In the center of the town lived a Jew named Ronkin, who was engaged in dressing leather and sewing boots (his house has been preserved at 1 Gorky Street). Local residents remember him and other Jews as hardworking and very good craftsmen, from whom many Belarusians learned shoemaking and hairdressing, because they worked more accurately and more beautifully.
Muravchik kept the manufactory (the city library is now located in his house at 1, Yukhnevich Street. In 2005, a commemorative plaque was installed on the library building). The Borukhin family owned a mill and a sawmill (now the City Council, Yaroslavskaya St., 2, is located in this building). Zelik had a large garden, on the territory of which the city bathhouse now stands.
Maria Andreevna Grichik, a witness of the pre-war events, recalls that the inhabitants of the town of different faiths lived together. On Saturday, Jews called Belarusian children to bring water, light a lamp, and do other minor work. For such help, the children were treated to something tasty, for example, Rachki sweets.
The building of the synagogue, as well as both Jewish cemeteries of David-Haradok, have not been preserved. The synagogue was destroyed during the war, and the cemeteries were washed away by the waters of Horyn during the spring floods.
CALENDAR DATES:
1100 - foundation of David-Gorodok by Prince David, grandson of Yaroslav the Wise
Mid 14th century - the city is part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
1521−1551 David-Haradok in the possession of the Polish Queen Bona Sforza
1527 - the appearance of the Tatars in the city. Prince Konstantin Ostrozhsky defeated the Tatars near Pinsk, after which Queen Bona allowed the captive Tatars to settle in David-Gorodok and its environs and granted them the right to marry local girls, provided they accepted Orthodoxy
1559 - 4 churches operated in Gorodok: Dmitrievskaya, Voskresenskaya, Nikolaevskaya, Kozma-Demianovskaya
1595 - David-Haradok was first marked on the geographical maps of the first pan-European "Atlas"
1648 - under the influence of the appeals of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, a local uprising began under the leadership of Ivan Bogdashevich, which was brutally suppressed
1655 - Moscow Prince Volkonsky captured David-Gorodok and burned the town
Tue floor. XVI-beginning XX centuries - the city is in the possession of the Radziwills, performs economic, administrative and military functions. Residences of princes before 1875
1667 - David-Gorodok kahal was created
The end of the 16th century (presumably) - The town received Magdeburg rights from Prince Albrecht Radziwill
1782 - the first mention of a synagogue in the town
1793 after the second division of the Commonwealth, David-Haradok went to the Russian Empire and became the center of the county of the Minsk province
1905 - Branch of the Bund party established
Since 1917, the branch "Poalei Zion" (literally "Workers of Zion") functioned
November 1917 - Soviet power was established in David-Gorodok
In 1918-1920. - David-Haradok was occupied by German and later by Polish troops
In 1918, with the help of the Joint (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee), a Jewish orphanage was opened
1921-1939 - a city in Poland
1939 - David-Gorodok became part of the Byelorussian SSR
In 1986, an obelisk was erected in the Khinovsk tract at the site of the mass extermination of the Jewish population of David-Gorodok, in 1996 it was updated
In 2010, a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust was opened in the Khinovsk tract
Worth a look
Museum of the History of David-Haradok - located in the building of the former city school, built in 1908. The history of the Jewish community of Gorodok is represented by a collection of photographs from the first half of the 20th century.
St. George's Church (1724)
The bell tower (at the Church of St. George) was built in the 19th century.
Church (1935-1936)
Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God (1913) - a stone church of the retrospective Russian style
Monument to Prince David (sculptor Alexander Dranets, 2000)
Headquarters of the Polish border battalion (1918-1931)
Memorial to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust in the Khinovsk tract,
In the surroundings (38 km): town. Turov, where the Jewish cemetery has been preserved.
Ecological routes in the region:
The route "Rafting along the Pripyat" (45km)
(From the village of Korobye - along the Pripyat River - to the city of D-Gorodok or the village of Olshany)
The main goal of the route is to get acquainted with the life of wetland animals and birds, vegetation, the landscape of the reserve and its specifics, as well as with the life of local residents.
Route "Stolin - David-Gorodok - Tereblichi" (60-100 km)
The route includes many objects of both historical and natural nature, such as: the palace and park ensemble in Novo-Berezhnoye, Zamkovaya Gora, the wooden St. George Church (1724), the Brodok farm, the Olmansky swamps reserve, etc.
Hotel "David-Gorodok": st. Kalinina, 119 a/1
http://www.belhotel.by/?David_Gorodok
Belarus, Davyd-Haradok, history of origin, ancient settlement of David-Haradok, David-Gorodetsky castle, flowers, David-Haradok from a bird's eye view.
History of occurrence
No one can name the exact date of the city's foundation. According to archeology, this is the end of the 11th or the beginning of the 12th century. Scientists are of the opinion that the city was founded in 1100, although this is very conditional. The city is ancient, although now it is small, and it cannot proudly boast of a lot of sights, but is it not enough that there is? ..
There are usually legends about the founding of a city. Like, for example, Princess Olga herself founded. And here David-Haradok founded was the grandson of Yaroslav the Wise, Prince David. The city has not always been called that way. At first it was called simply - "Gorodok" (maybe that's why the inhabitants still call themselves gorodchuks, or more precisely gorochuks?), later already in the 15th century - Gorodok Davydov, well, since the 17th century it has completely received its modern name - David-Gorodo To.
During its long history, Gorodok was included in different principalities, belonged to different countries: at the end of the 14th century it was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, in 1509 it belonged to the Pinsk principality, in 1523 Queen Bona Sforza became its mistress, since 1551 Radzivils owned the Gorodok. In 1655, the governor Prince F.F. Volkonsky defeated the Poles here, and captured D.-G. and burned the place. After the 2nd partition of the Commonwealth, in 1793 he went to Russia. On January 22, 1796, the city received its own coat of arms. From 1921 to 1939 it was part of Poland.
Settlement
What to see when visiting David-Gorodo to tourists? Probably, the central square, around which both the museum of local lore, and the monument to the prince - the founder of the city, and the Castle Hill itself are concentrated. When you climb it, you understand that a long time ago life was in full swing here. Already in the XI century, here, on this small hill, people lived, were engaged in crafts, raised animals, and fished. As it often happens, you realize with surprise that such a small area had its own streets, and a temple, and residential buildings, at this place the thought breaks off, and I involuntarily turn around to the drawn-out lowing of a cow grazing in the middle of the settlement. However, everything is in order. Here, a man passed through the former citadel, holding his bicycle behind the wheel, the sky over the mountain frowns, not allowing a single ray of sunshine to warm this ancient settlement.
Now only a memorial stone is installed on the mountain, which says that the first settlement was here - the city on the Goryn River originated from here. In 1937-1938, Polish archaeologists under the leadership of R. Yakimovich, and in 1967 under the leadership of P.F. Lysenko, unearthed the remains of log cabins of residential buildings, a wooden church, pavements, and outbuildings - the Zarubinets settlement. From the northwest to the southeast, as well as from the northeast to the southwest, two intersecting wooden pavements stretched. The church stood among residential buildings, consisting of a rectangular main frame and a smaller frame - the altar. Near the church, 25 graves of the first owners of the ancient city and their commanders were found. Detinets was fortified with a rampart and a moat. Also, during excavations on the citadel, many fragments of clay vessels were found (some had the mark of a master). Wooden handicrafts were found (for example, maple wood mace tops ornamented with spiral patterns, combs with a circular ornament, etc.), bone awls, needles for weaving nets, as well as numerous handicrafts made of iron and bronze. Finds of glass bracelets and slate whorls confirm urban character of the settlement David-Haradka in the XI-XII centuries.
Wooden David-Gorodets Castle
In 1655, during the Russian-Polish war, the city was destroyed and burned. Castle Hill rose only 3-5 meters above the water level in Horyn. In the XVII-XVIII centuries, a wooden castle was erected on the site of the ancient settlement, which included the Upper and Lower Castles. The upper castle was surrounded by a high rampart and surrounded by water. The lower castle had a parkan fence. The total length of the line of fortifications of both castles was 980 meters, of which 466 meters fell on the Upper Castle, and 534 meters on the lower one. In front of it was a garden and a wooden church (built in 1649), which burned down in 1839. The lower castle was connected by a bridge to the market square. The entrance to the bridge was closed by a gate. A bridge led from the Lower Castle to the Upper Castle through an oak gate. From the castle and the square, the main streets are laid in radial directions.
Gradually, the castles dilapidated and turned from fortifications into the residence of the Radzivils.
Flowers? Flowers! :)
"The roads took me to a small Davyd-Haradok market town, which is above the river Gorynya, in Polissya. Great place, by the way. Occupation of the inhabitants - flowers. There is not much land, because summer floods often flood the area. therefore, each dry piece is for roses, gillyflowers, matthiola, sweet peas, dahlias, gramophones, asters, terry rose hips and thousands and thousands of other varieties. Seeds, tubers, flowers are sold all the way to Siberia, and therefore every house has a sign of the sun, and the houses themselves go crazy, suffocate in an ocean of flowers.
This is how V. S. Korotkevich wrote in his book "The Earth Fallen with White Wings". It is hard to believe that the seeds from this small town were dispersed at one time throughout the Union and were in such great demand. If you drive to the central square to the monument to Prince David, nothing unusual or anything that would speak of such an important occupation of the gorodchuks is striking, although ... Maybe it's just the beginning of October? :) Although at the beginning of October, the foot of the Castle Hill, illuminated by the sun, pleases with late forbs.
David-Gorodok from a bird's eye view.
Residents of the city not only love their city, they love it very much. Upon arrival in David-Gorodok, I inherited a cloudy sky from the beginning of October, which never once smiled with a single ray of sunshine ... Horyn and Zamkovaya Hill did not seem very beautiful - after all, the blue sky and the trees carefully embraced by the sun mean for I have a lot of moods... Arriving in different cities, the tradition of riding in the parks of culture and recreation on the "Ferris Wheel", if it exists, was also quickly forgotten, but in vain! The extraordinary beauty of the city and the river is revealed in photographs Alexander Kuzmich, judge for yourself ...
David-Haradok, Horyn,bird's-eye.
David-Haradok is one of the southernmost cities in Belarus. First mentioned in 1127. It was named after Prince David Igorevich, who founded the settlement. A small town, rather a place, stretches along the bank of a full-flowing river on the highway Zhitkovichi - Turov - the border with Ukraine (checkpoint Verkhniy Terebezhov). In David-Gorodok there are two secondary schools, a kindergarten, an art school, a youth sports school, a Children's Art House, and two libraries. There is a hospital, a clinic, two pharmacies, a post office, two banks, two cafes, and a hotel.
The main attraction of David-Haradok is the Church of St. George. Built in 1724, a monument of folk wooden architecture. It is located near the bridge across Lake Sezhka, when driving from Turov on the left. Walk along the hill on which the Temple stands, admire the creation of the hands of the ancestors. But you will not get to the service in the church, since it is now inactive. But further, in front of the bridge over the Goryn, the second, stone, red-and-white church is also located on the left. It was erected in 1913 and consecrated in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. This Temple is also of cultural and historical value. Sunday service begins at 10 o'clock, you can go in, put candles, pray in front of miraculous icons.
There is also a church in David-Haradok dating from 1935-36. Now, during the reconstruction, the church can only be viewed from the outside. In the center of the city there is a majestic monument to Prince David, who, it seems, has just sailed on a ship, stood on a hill, surveys the area and, perhaps, at that moment decides: This is where the city should be!
The ancient settlement, which dates back to the 12th century, has been preserved. Now it looks like a small hill on Zamkova Hill. You can walk here from the monument to the founder of the city. It is known that underground are the remains of an ancient settlement. Three crosses were recently installed here on the site of the Temple that burned down in the 30s of the last century. The first pilgrims have already visited this holy place.
In the Khinovsk tract, where the Jews of David-Gorodok and surrounding villages were killed during the Great Patriotic War, a monument was erected in 1986. People from different countries come here to honor the memory of the innocent victims. Visit the David-Haradok History Museum. Here you will learn about the past of the town, see some household items, ancient weapons. There is a small museum in secondary school No. 2.
The most interesting event held in David-Haradok is "Koniki". This is a folk costume party. People dressed in various masks stop cars passing by, sing and dance. Well, for this, of course, they give them a little money. Concerts are held on the site. At this time, a thanksgiving service is served in the Temple in honor of the beginning of the year. The carnival takes place annually on the night of January 13-14. Too bad it's winter. There are tents for vacationers where they can buy drinks, food, souvenirs. In recent years, many visitors from abroad have been seen at the masquerade.
From David-Haradok, when you drive towards Turov, at a distance of eight kilometers is the “cucumber capital” of Belarus - the agricultural town of Olshany. This is a very large town. There are many shops, there is "Olshansky estate" with good hotel rooms, a restaurant. There are many farms in the agro-town, you can visit the Brodok farm to be surprised at the achievements in agricultural production.
If you turn right after the bridge over Lake Olshanskoye, drive four kilometers, enter the agricultural town of Remel, turn left, you will get to the horse farm. Here you can see very expensive horses, ride a pony or an ordinary horse. This site is frequently visited by tourists.
After passing Remel and Mochul, you will get to the village of Tereblichi. Here, in the outback of Polesye, you can see one of the fifteen most unusual museums in Belarus. It contains about a thousand household items used by our ancestors. The museum is headed by Honorary Poleshuk Ivan Filippovich Suprunchik, who carves wooden sculptures with an ordinary axe. Suprunchik's products depict local legends and rituals.
After the museum, you can go to the forest. Directly from the center of the village, a gravel road will lead to the Yazvinki tract. There, in the guest house, you can relax, admire the beauties of nature from the windows of well-appointed rooms. And if you want - go along the forest path. You will see a small church, climb the observation tower 52 m high.
Visit David - Gorodok region - and you will get a lot of impressions, get acquainted with the traditions of the inhabitants of the Belarusian Polesie, which have survived to this day. After preparation for the regional "Dozhinki -2017" David-Haradok became even more beautiful and well-maintained.
David-Gorodok (Belarusian: Davyd-Garadok) is a city (since 1940) in the Stolin district of the Brest region of Belarus. Located on the river Goryn. 6,700 inhabitants (2009).
Notable natives and residents
- Misko, Pavel Andreevich (1931-2011) - Belarusian writer, author of prose books for children, science fiction writer.
Jewish community
In 1521 1551. David-Haradok is the property of the Polish Queen Bona Sforza. With her favor, Jews from Western Europe began to arrive and settle in D-Gorodok and its environs. They were engaged in crafts and trade.
In the Lithuanian-Polish Principality, Jews enjoyed significant benefits in the economic sphere, had their own self-government - they lived in Kagal, professed Judaism. So it was in D-Gorodok. There was a rabbi, there were two synagogues, Jewish schools. The legal status of the Jews was legalized in the Constitution of 1588.
After the Second Partition of the Commonwealth in 1793, D-Gorodok became part of Russia and became the center of the district of the Minsk province.
Soviet power in D-Gorodok was established in November 1917. In 1918-1920 D-Gorodok was occupied by German and later by Polish troops. From 1921 to 1939 it was part of Poland. The Jews of D-Gorodok lived along the central Yuryevskaya (now Sovetskaya) street in houses with direct access to the street.
After the advent of Soviet power, Jews took an active part in elections to local authorities.
Since January 1940, the D-town has been the center of the district of the Pinsk region, the Belarusian Republic.
July 7, 1941 David-Haradok was occupied by Nazi troops. The Germans created a ghetto in Davyd-Haradok for local Jews. Jewish women and children, about 1,200 people, were expelled from the city by local residents (philistines), and their property was looted by local residents [source not specified 122 days]. Subsequently, almost all of them died during the destruction of the Stolin ghetto in the Stasino tract.
The Nazis strictly forbade local residents to hide Jews in their homes, and for disobedience, the entire family was shot if they hid a Jew in their house. The Jews offered the inhabitants money and gold to be hidden or taken to the partisans. Some, risking their own lives and the lives of their relatives, agreed to this and helped the Jews.
Heraldry
On January 22, 1796 (Law No. 17435), the emblem of the town of Davydogorodka was approved (together with other emblems of the Minsk governorate).
“In the upper part of the shield is the coat of arms of Minsk. At the bottom, in a black field, is the Pripyat River, on the banks of which there is a silver pier with two gates and a mooring golden ship, loaded with goods, tied in three bales.
The coat of arms of David-Gorodok was approved on June 28, 1997 by Decision No. 17 of the David-Gorodok City Executive Committee. The coat of arms was included in the Coat of Arms of the Republic of Belarus on December 1, 1997 under No. 10:
“in the black field of the “Russian”, or “French”, shield, the river Goryn, on the banks of which there is a silver pier with two gates, a golden ship with bales of goods moored to it.
Story
Arose at the end of XI or beginning. XII centuries. Vladimir-Volyn prince David Igorevich is considered to be the founder of the city, it was in his honor that the city got its name. According to local tradition, D.-G. was built by some prince of Turov, who adopted the name Davyd in Orthodoxy. First, the area around D.-G. belonged to Kievan Rus, then to the Volyn principality. In the XII-XIII centuries it was the center of a specific principality, then the city became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In 1509 he was part of the Pinsk prince-va.
David-Haradok is a small town in the Stolin district, Brest region of Belarus. The main architectural landmark of David-Haradok is the wooden church of St. George, built in the second half of the 17th century and somewhat rebuilt in 1724. There are no complex architectural elements in the external and internal decoration of this temple, everything is done quite simply and restrainedly, which is very typical for such ancient wooden religious buildings. Today, this temple in David-Haradok is in excellent condition and is a very interesting architectural monument of Belarusian wooden architecture, cultural and historical value and landmark of Belarus. On the example of this temple, you can try to imagine what typical wooden churches looked like in the distant 17th century. Near the Church of St. George in David-Haradok there is also a small bell tower built in the 19th century.
Another attraction of David-Gorodok is the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. This temple was erected in David-Gorodok relatively recently, in 1913. Near the church there is also a small chapel and a beautiful gate built in the same year. This beautiful temple is also currently in excellent condition and is an architectural monument and cultural and historical value of Belarus.
A kind of business card, symbol and most recognizable object of David-Gorodok is the monument to Prince David, the founder of David-Gorodok, after whom this town got its name. Other attractions of David-Haradok include: firstly, the building of the former church, originally built in 1936, and now rebuilt as a club; and secondly, several other buildings dating mainly from the beginning of the 20th century, led by the building of the former headquarters of the Polish border battalion, which can be attributed to the city's historical buildings.
David-Haradok is one of the oldest settlements on the territory of modern Belarus. There is an ancient settlement or, in other words, a castle dating back to the 12th century. Now this archaeological monument is just a small hill of a characteristic shape. But under a small layer of soil there really are the remains of ancient wooden buildings and fences, adobe stoves and cobbled streets.
