People who, over the centuries, tied their lives to Budachów: owners of the estate, teachers, chroniclers and builders. They are listed in chronological order. Most of the information comes from German regional studies, so sources are given for each person. For events, see the Timeline.
Anton von Pannwitz
estate owner, cavalry captain
c. 1664/65 – 1735
Son of Christian von Pannwitz and grandson of Anton the Elder, who bought Budachów in 1630. He served in the Brandenburg army and left it as a cavalry captain (Rittmeister). Between 1711 and 1719 he is recorded as living in Budachów. He had five children with Helena Dorothea von Glaubitz. His son Friedrich was the last Pannwitz at Budachów.
Sources: Bytnica Municipality, Zamki Lubuskie, Heimatkreis Crossen/Oder
Karl Friedrich Scholz
estate owner, founder of the church
d. 1789
He bought the indebted estate after the Pannwitz line died out in 1740. He funded the Baroque church of 1782–1785 that still stands in the centre of the village. After his death the estate passed to his son-in-law, Carl Friedrich von Ludwig.
Sources: Zamki Lubuskie, Heimatkreis Crossen/Oder
Johann Gottlieb Lindner
sexton, maker of the altar
dates of life unknown
Sexton (Küster) in Budachów who in 1789 made the pulpit altar of the new church.
Sources: Heimatkreis Crossen/Oder
Carl Friedrich von Ludwig
estate owner
dates of life unknown, missing from c. 1806
Son-in-law of Karl Friedrich Scholz and owner of the estate from 1789. According to the German chronicle, around 1795 he built the pavilion with a wine press on the vineyard hill in the park, known today as the wine tower from Budachów in the Ochla open-air museum. In 1795 he moved to Crossen (Krosno Odrzańskie), and in 1806 he fought against Napoleon and went missing.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Zastrow
estate owner
22 Dec 1752 – 22 Jul 1830
He came from Wielichowo. In 1810 he bought Budachów for 75,000 thalers. After his death the estate passed to his son Otto, who sold it to Eduard Endell in 1838.
Sources: Zamki Lubuskie, Heimatkreis Crossen/Oder
Friedrich Gottlieb Klaunig
cantor, teacher, chronicler
b. 25 May 1786, Ogrossen near Calau
For more than half a century, from December 1806 to 1 January 1860, he taught at the Budachów school and served as cantor in the church. He wrote a chronicle of the village (Geschichte von Baudach) that later researchers drew on. The manuscript was lost after 1945. In retirement he lived in Drzewica (Drewitz).
Sources: Heimatkreis Crossen/Oder
Eduard Endell
estate owner, government councillor
d. 12 Jan 1861
He bought Budachów from Otto von Zastrow in December 1838. After his death the estate was run by his widow, Julie née Nauck, together with Wilhelm Fournier.
Sources: Zamki Lubuskie, Heimatkreis Crossen/Oder
Wilhelm Fournier
estate owner, captain
c. 1831 – 9 Dec 1902
He came from a Berlin Huguenot family. From the 1860s he was co-owner and later owner of the estate, which he enlarged with Tammendorf among others. It is thanks to his efforts that Budachów got a station on the railway opened in 1872–1874.
Sources: Zamki Lubuskie, Heimatkreis Crossen/Oder
Rose Fournier
estate owner
c. 1842 – 29 Apr 1927
Widow of Wilhelm Fournier. For 25 years, from 1902 until her death, she ran the estate, which in 1914 covered 2,155 ha. She was helped by her son-in-law, General Viktor Dallmer.
Sources: Zamki Lubuskie, Heimatkreis Crossen/Oder
Viktor Dallmer
general of infantry
25 Jul 1852, Beinsdorf (Mieszków) – 22 Jan 1936, Budachów
Prussian officer who in the First World War commanded the 10th Reserve Division and was awarded the Pour le Mérite with Oak Leaves. Son-in-law of the Fourniers. He managed the estate on behalf of the heirs, and when the inheritance was divided the main estate went to him and later to his son Friedrich. He died in Budachów. The German village chronicle gives his date of death as 21 January 1935.
Sources: Zamki Lubuskie, Heimatkreis Crossen/Oder, Wikipedia (German) – Viktor Dallmer
Walther L. Fournier
writer, hunter
24 Nov 1869, Budachów – 9 Mar 1943, Tammendorf
The second of Wilhelm Fournier’s three sons, born and raised on the Budachów estate. He wrote more than a hundred articles for the magazine “Jagd und Hund” and several books on hunting, some under the pen name “Wilder Jäger”. He travelled in Africa in 1896/97 and 1901.
Alfred Saemann
teacher, head of the school
dates of life unknown
The last German head of the school in Budachów. In articles written between 1927 and 1939 he drew on Klaunig’s chronicle, which was later lost, so part of its content survives.
Sources: Heimatkreis Crossen/Oder
Still missing here are the people who built post-war Budachów: the first settlers, teachers, village heads and the women behind Budachów’s pierogi. If you know their stories, please share them and we will add them to this page.