of the lands where the original 40 farms had been laid out" Herman Schick, Memories of the Parish Ugartsthal – Landestreu („Zeitweiser der Galiziendeutschen 1976", published also in Newsletter No. 6 of Galizien German Descendants) – writes that Tespowo comes from the abbreviation TESP, that is Towarzystwo Eksploatacji Soli Potasowej – the Company for Exploration of Salt Mines in Kalusz Gedenkbuch zur Erinnerung an die Einwanderung der Deutschen in Galizien vor 150 Jahren, Poznań 1931, Ludwig Schneider, Das Kolonisationswerk Josefs II. in Galizien, Leipzig 1939. English translation by Leona Rosenmeier (published in GGD #15, July 1998). Geschichte der Deutschen in den Karpathenländern by Kaindl, Raimund Friedrich External links GALIZIEN GERMAN DESCENDANTS This E-group is to share information between the Galizien German Descendants searching for their family history. Galicia (Galizien, Galicja), a former Austrian province, was a part of South - East Poland, today Western Ukraine Galicia (Eastern Europe) Location of Siwka - Ugartsthal Location of Siwka - Ugartsthal Map of District (povit) of Kalush (Kalusz Ukrainian Museum in Kropyvnik Samuel Bredetzky Merged settlements in Ukraine Kalush Raion Former German settlements in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Populated places in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria German culture in diaspora