Shehyni


Shehyni is a village of Mostyska Raion in Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. Located at the border with Poland, it is best known as the site of the Medyka-Shehyni.

History

The village, situated 14 km east of the city of Przemyśl was first mentioned in 1515 in a royal charter under the name of Szechinie. For most of its existence the village belonged to the Land of Przemyśl, itself part of Ruthenian Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland and then Austrian Galicia.
From the very beginning the village belonged to the so-called key of estates including Medyka, Pozdziacz, Torki and Buców, centred on the manor in Medyka, all based on a local variant of Magdeburg law, dubbed Ruthenian law. Initially the peasants settled there were tasked with taking care of the royal stables in Medyka; with time their duty towards the owner of Medyka manor was modified to simple serfdom, with yearly rent paid in grain. The village had a voigt as late as 1565, and was populated by no more than 7 families of peasants. By 1589 the village had 48 male inhabitants and two inns paying a yearly rent of 78 Polish guilders. Some time before that date a mill and a fish pond were constructed in the village.
As part of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria in 1880 there were only a handful of houses along the road linking Przemyśl with Mościska, with time the village grew to 1036 inhabitants.

Infrastructure

Beside the border checkpoint, the village has train station Mostyska-Derzhkordon. Through Shehyni also passes a road.