ca. 1850

approx. 0.5 ha (entire site)

Tombstone of the Wiechowski family

A village (since 1964 Гранітне) situated in a fertile area on the river Złota Lipa, 9 km from the town of Uście Zielone. The 1868 and 1872 censuses and the 1880 'Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland' show that Baranów belonged to Jan Starzyński h. Doliwa. According to the inventories of 1897 and 1909, and the 1928 "Address Book", the owner of the village and the 220-hectare estate was Julian Starzyński. Little is known about the history of the village. The sources reveal the dramatic fate of Baranov and other villages and towns in Podolia during the invasion of the Tatar army in the 17th century. The Tatars did not spare the village during their raid under the command of their son Kantymyr in 1624, which, although it ended with the defeat of the Ordens at Shmankovce, the invaders wreaked havoc in the Halychyna region. Among other things, they ruined peasants' possessions in private villages, including Baranov. The village did not have a parish for a long time. A Roman Catholic one was never established, a Greek Catholic one only in the first quarter of the 20th century4, with St. Dmitri's Church being founded in 1855. Before that, the Greek Catholics belonged to the parish in Krasiejów, while the Catholics were connected with the church in Uście Zielony. According to the 1880 'Geographical Dictionary', Baranów was inhabited by 86 Roman Catholics, 457 Greek Catholics and 8 Jews. According to the 1921 census, 81 Catholics, 589 Greek Catholics and 21 Jews lived in the village. At that time, 225 Poles and 466 Ruthenians were registered. In 1928, 88 people declared that they were Roman Catholics. A wooden Greek-Catholic church has been preserved in Baranów. However, a modest one-storey manor house and farm buildings of the Starzyński family are in ruins.