Radekhiv

Radekhiv is a city in Sheptytskyi Raion of Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine, known in Polish as Radziechow. It hosts the administration of the Radekhiv urban hromada, and until 18 July 2020 it was the centre of Radekhiv Raion, which was merged into what is now Sheptytskyi Raion in the reform that cut the raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. Its population was estimated at 9,680 in 2022. The first written mention of the settlement dates to 1472, when the land belonged to the Polish Belz Voivodeship, and Tatars destroyed it in 1578. In the eighteenth century it passed to Count Wilhelm Mier, whose son Jozef built a large Classicist palace there, and the town was annexed by Austria in the First Partition of Poland in 1772. The Badeni family later owned the estate and financed the Lviv to Stoyaniv railway, completed at Radekhiv in 1910.