Jesuit College in Khyriv, formerly Jesuit College in Chyrów, was a purpose-built Polish secondary boys college, owned by the Society of Jesus, in the occupied Austro-Hungarian partition of Poland in the late 19th century. The vast estate, comprising the college, has the rare distinction of having existed in at least five separate national Jurisdictions in the last century and a half. From 1918 the college was in independent Poland until 1939 when it ceased to exist as an institution, although not as an asset, due to foreign invasions, first by the Red Army till 1941, then by the German Wehrmacht until 1943, before being re-taken by the Soviet Union. Since 1944 the site and its entire estate was in the USSR and since 1991 has been in present-day Ukraine.
Aerial view of the college buildings, 1930s
Part of the former school buildings, before the disastrous fire in 2018, now in Western Ukraine
The fire damaged Jesuit College in Khyriv, Ukraine (detail, 2018)
Plaque commemorating the foundation of the Jesuit Monastery and College in Chyrów - St. Barbara's Church, Krakow Poland
Khyriv is a city in Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast (region) of Ukraine with a population of around 4,249. It hosts the administration of Khyriv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.
Central Khyriv
Polish–Ukrainian War 1918–1919. Polish defenders in front of the Chyrów Jesuit college, where they were stationed in 1919
The former Jesuit College in Khyriv before severe fire damage in 2018
Town hall (2017)