Attractions of Dovhe

The Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary in Dovhe was founded in 1911 as a Greek Catholic church. Baroque architecture.

During the Soviet rule, the temple was closed.

Today, the Church of the Assumption belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit in the Transcarpathian village of Dovhe is a modern construction in the style of constructivism with high-tech elements.

Previously, there was an old Roman Catholic church built in 1920 on this site, but it fell into disrepair during the years of Soviet rule.

In 1999, a new church was built in place of the old building. nearby is the Greek Catholic Church of Saint Illya.

The Dovhe castle-palace was built in the middle of the 18th century on the basis of the destroyed wooden castle of the Dovhay magnates, known since the 15th century.

After the suppression of the liberation movement of the Hungarian people in 1711, Count Laslo Teleki received the estate from the Hungarian king as a sign of gratitude for his active participation in the fight against the rebels. He reconstructed the old castle in Dovhe, turning it into his summer residence.

The one-story palace is surrounded by defensive walls with an entrance tower and four small corner towers under tented roofs, a park is laid out in the yard. Representatives of the European nobility visited here for rest and hunting.

For the past 50 years, a tuberculosis dispensary has been located here. 400-year-old linden trees grow nearby.

The age-old linden, which grows in the village of Dovhe in Transcarpathia, is considered one of the oldest trees in Ukraine.

Its age is estimated to be more than 600 years old (according to other data, it is 450 years old). A linden tree 25 meters high has a girth of 6 meters. Bequeathed in 1969, it is a botanical monument of local importance.

The tree is located on the territory of the park of the tuberculosis sanatorium, located in the premises of the Dovhe Castle. There is no fence or security sign.

A monument on the grave of fallen Kuruts rebels was erected in the Transcarpathia village of Dovhe.

In 1703, during the national liberation war of the Hungarian people led by the Transylvanian prince Ferents II Rakotsi against the Austrian rule, the first battle between the rebel Kuruts, including the villagers, and the Habsburg regular troops took place here. Although the battle ended in the defeat of the rebels, the war broke out with renewed vigor after that.

The monument to the fallen Kuruts peasants was erected in 1908. By the 300th anniversary of the uprising, the descendants of the Dolhay family from Hungary cast a new sculpture of the turul, which disappeared from the pedestal as early as 1923.