Morshyn

The first written mention of Morshyn dates back to January 2, 1482. in the court record, which mentioned that the village of Morszyn belonged to the nobleman Yuri (Juchna) Nagvazdan and was part of the Kingdom of Poland. At that time it was a small village with 12 yards.

In 1875, with the construction of the Stryj-Stanislav railway via Morshyn, the life of the city revived considerably. The then owner of Morshyn, a merchant Boniface Stiller - a German by birth - drew people's attention to the picturesque area, with which there was now good communication. Newspapers reported in 1877 that a climatic resort for tuberculosis patients was opening in Morshyn.

Doctors V. Pyasetsky and S. Dzikovsky, invited by Stiller, began to organize climate and hydrotherapy in Morshyn, similar to Western resorts, which were quite fashionable at that time. In May 1878, S. Dzikowski reported on the possibility of organizing a resort in Morszyn at a meeting of the "balneological commission" in Krakow. Doctor Lutostansky, who inspected Morshyn, says that the resort has a room for 12 baths, three living quarters for visitors, wooden plumbing. He also draws attention to three springs with bitter salt water. 1878 was the year of the first official medical season with the opening of the Institution for the Treatment of Breast Diseases. Since then, the mineral waters of Morshyn springs have been the subject of study.

In 1879, two mine wells were cleaned and put in order, named after the owner of the resort Stiller and his wife, the springs "Boniface" and "Magdalena" (now springs №1 and №2). In the same year, another spring was discovered, which gives ultra-fresh water - the spring of the Mother of God, or the spring №4. At the same time in the vicinity of Morshyn found peat mud - "pine".

The holiday season of 1880 opened with a new name - "Treatment of mineral waters and mud". Water from mineral springs began to be used for baths, and peat mud - for mud baths and applications. Morshyn became a spa resort.

In 1880-1881, the first attempts were made to use the waters of the source of the Boniface, which were apparently successful, because since 1883 this water has been sold in bottles.

Morshyn became famous, he was known not only in Austria-Hungary but also abroad. In brochures published before the First World War, Morshyn was compared to the most popular European resorts, calling it the "Galician Spa" and the "Galician Carlsbad". Many researchers wrote about the healing properties of Morshyn brine in those years, equating it with the waters of the then famous German, Hungarian and Czech resorts. Morshyn brine was exported to the United States, England, Italy, Romania and other countries.

There are two theories about the origin of the name of the city "Morshin". According to the first, the name is due to the surname Morshtyn, which is found in the annals of the 14th century. Different forms of the surname existed in several variations - Mornshtvein, Morshtyn, etc., and given the phonetic similarity of “Morshtyn” and “Morshin”, it is assumed that there is a direct connection between them. But, this is only a hypothesis, since there is no documentary evidence anywhere that the Morshtyns were somehow connected with this particular area, and the opposite evidence has not yet been found anywhere - the name of Morshyn, which would be written with the letter "t". According to the second, the name Morshyn is associated with a characteristic feature of the soil in which rotting processes take place, which corresponds to the Polish word “murshene”, and the root originates from the German word “morsh”, which means to rot.