Budy, Starogard County

Budy ( German Budda ) is a village with about 30 inhabitants in the northern Polish rural community Lubichowo ( German Liebichau ) in the powiat Starogardzki the Pomeranian Voivodeship. The historical German name Budda means Bude.

• 3.1 Elizabeth Siewert, writer
• 3.2 Clara Siewert, painter

Geographical and natural spatial position

Budy is located 4 kilometers east of Lubichowo, 12 kilometers southwest of Starogard Gdański ( German Prussian Stargard ), and 56 kilometers south of Gdansk. The small village is located in the western Vistula space on the Baltic ridge near the Tuchel Heath, a typical weichselglazialen outwash plain.

History

Budda was a part of the historic Prussian province of West Prussia.

Naming, Erbpachtgut

After specifying the West Prussian pastor and historian Bernhard Stadie the place formerly led the term " Grüneberger shop", so it was a shack or Teerbude the eastern neighboring village of Green Mountain (now Zielona Góra ). Green Mountain was probably created by the German Order of Knights and for the first time in 1373 in the village Schenkungsprivilegium Kottys issued by Winrich von Kniprode been mentioned as the border town of Stargard. At the Grüneberger Bude the Vorwerk Lippinken 've heard (from lippa = Linde ). From Bude Budda became later.

1770 was the Starosta Hilary Alexander awarded by Potulicki at the very heart of the forest plot of land as leasehold. The leaseholder Buddas have received the right to cut down all the wood and fields to make it. The annual lease have included fishing justice on the lake Maliniec ( from malinia = blackberry).

Estate Budda

In the second half of the 19th century was the Budda estate owned by Ivan Siewert, a former captain of the Prussian army, Helene and Siewert, nee von Baehr. The family ran to the secluded estate crops, livestock and small starch production. Ivan Siewert was also in the 1870s and 1880s, official head of the consular district Liebichau. Among the many children of the couple were the painter Clara Siewert (1862-1945) and the writer Elizabeth Siewert (1867-1930), who were born and grew up on the estate. The long forgotten and rediscovered works of the sisters in 2008 contain many depictions or descriptions of the estate.

Budda in the artistic work of Siewert Sisters

Clara Siewert processed their thematic predilection for mystical, fairy tales and literary material, which went back to her childhood on the farm, in an expressive and passionate, characterized by mental turmoil images. Also the much autobiographical novels, short stories and novellas Elizabeth Siewert revolve around their memories of childhood and landscape in Budda and reflect the contemporary reality of the region resist.

Elizabeth Siewert, writer

So she wrote in memory The home, which was published in the gegründeteten of the women's rights activist Helene Lange magazine The woman in 1912:

"I was once on Budda at home, that was a small farm situated east, not a very fruitful land. It had neither a beautiful residential home, yet a stylish garden; Forests, it could not have, there were only bushes on meadow edges, groups of trees on hills and conservation of small extent. He had not gotten the wealth of a lake, but there were a few ponds in the fields. On a small part of the land to grow wheat, was a boldness that certainly did not justify itself each year; the ground was cold. From exuberant meadows one could not speak. A meager estate, probably, but Budda played under the large fixed estates that surrounded it, the Proteus. I say, it was not because things properly, not even wrong, I can say more: it was there to higher things. Budda it was able to transform itself hundreds of times, it rose above themselves, there was willingly the venue for the most non- distinguishable, most daring operations; it never failed, if it is challenged. Idyllic and heroic, gipsy and aristocratic, dreamy, transcendental, it could be [ ... ] [... ] was His spring and was incredible. Budda was Greek. [ ... ] Be the ground heaved, his airs fluctuated riches; his poor meadows cheered and triumphed. What could it all! What were his children! "

In the autobiographical novel The beautiful autumn days ( 1903) described it paid dearly for the Budda comparable Romangut Ruhla as a small estate in the most barren part of West Prussia, which the owner who is not a real farmer, [ ... ] like a cat bought in the bag [ and ] have. The talented, tender, make residents are overburdened by debt and lived in constant worry about the bare essentials. Also in Three Sisters (1906 ) they thematized an impoverished estate in Prussian Stargard: As long could think of the children, their parents had put in money worries, while the layout of the living was quite moderate domination.

Clara Siewert, painter

The mother of the sisters, Helene Siewert made ​​for an early artistic development of children and operational until her marriage even in painting. On Budda she led a family book in which she recorded the daily events with poetry and illustrated with drawings ( see the side of the estate ).

For the rediscovery of the work of the painter Clara Siewert and through the exhibition accompanying monograph also the work Elizabeth Siewert 2008, the exhibition Clara Siewert made ​​- between dream and reality in the East German Gallery Regensburg. The eponymous accompanying the exhibition lists the following works by the painter with direct reference to Budda and environment; the specified plant numbers refer to the catalog of works in this monograph:

• Standing man and Ploughing (around 1890/1900, No. 92). Pencil on gray paper, 24.7 x 33.5 cm ( in the exhibition catalog Gurlitt in 1936 titled as Polish workers).
• West Prussian region (around 1890/1900, No. 107). Pen, black ink, 16 x 26.2 cm.
• The Adventure of Oijamizza (around 1900/1910, No. 73). Pen, black ink, 22.9 x 40 cm ( the sister Elizabeth, published in 1928 in the band The Sumbuddawald an amendment to the slightly different title The Adventures of Oijamitza ).
• Study on the mural "Ring of Polycrates ' ( before 1903, No. 69). Pen, black ink, 15.4 x 15.3 cm ( study on an image that Clara Siewert said to have painted on the wall of the house servants in Budda ).
• Tuchel Heath ( Forest Study) ( 1910, No. 111). Graphite and colored pencil on gray paper, 32.8 x 19.7 cm.
• Old Polish Kätnerin ( in Budda ) ( 1910, No. 24). Tempera, graphite, 25.5 x 30 cm.
• A swineherd ( 1925, No. 14). Mixed media ( tempera) on canvas, 124 x 95 cm.
• Three dahinjagende Reiter ( 1925, No. 33). Gouache, colored chalks, charcoal and pencil, 45 x 62 cm.

Furthermore, it was shown in 2012 at the exhibition Käthe Kollwitz and her colleagues at the Berlin Secession ( 1898-1913 ) by Clara Siewert:

• Budda ( 1888). Oil on canvas, 47 x 74 cm (The photo shows the parents and siblings Rosa, Victoria, Elizabeth and Alexander sitting at the table in a room of the estate ).

In addition go a number of other works, such as her witches cycle (various number), the tale of the almond tree (No. 109), and also several portraits on the myths, fairy tales and experiences of the West Prussian homeland Clara Siewert's back.