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Church of the Translation of the Relics of St Nicholas, Królik Wołoski (ruin)

Królik Wołoski, Królik Wołoski, Podkarpackie

A village with a population of zero, and a river-stone church slowly coming apart above its own graveyard.

📅 1843–1947🏛️ LandmarkClosedBuilt 1843
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Church of the Translation of the Relics of St Nicholas, Królik Wołoski (ruin), Królik Wołoski, Królik Wołoski, Podkarpackie
Ruined church at Królik Wołoski · Henryk Bielamowicz, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

The story

Królik Wołoski — "Wallachian Królik" — was settled under Wallachian law between 1551 and 1600 as part of the Jaśliska estate of the bishops of Przemyśl, and its inhabitants were Lemkos. The Greek Catholic church of the Translation of the Relics of St Nicholas was built in 1843 of river stone, with a gabled sheet-metal roof and three small towers on octagonal drums. It is masonry rather than wood, despite the village often being grouped with the wooden-cerkva route. The village emptied in two stages: part of the population left for the Ukrainian SSR under the 1945–46 population exchange, and the rest were deported in Operation Vistula in 1947. It has been uninhabited ever since, with official records listing zero residents. What remains is the roofless church, a 19th-century cemetery whose tombstones were restored by volunteers in July 1996, and a stone wayside chapel of 1794. About 9 km south-southwest of Rymanów.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

Królik Polski and Królik Wołoski were twin villages, one Polish and one Lemko; only one still exists.
The 1794 wayside chapel is nearly fifty years older than the church beside it.
The cemetery was saved by a volunteer conservation camp, not by the state.

Connected places

Tserkva of St Michael the Archangel, Turzańsk

Turzańsk, Podkarpackie
Operation Vistula

Cerkva of the Protection of the Mother of God, Komańcza (original)

Komańcza, Podkarpackie
Greek Catholic

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Nearby history

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The Guest House (Dworzec Gościnny)

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