Key dates in the history of Budachów (formerly Baudach), from its first mention in the 14th century to the present day. Dates that sources give differently are marked “disputed date”, and information handed down only by later tradition is marked “tradition”. You can read more about the village’s beginnings in the article Budachów is over 700 years old, and about the people connected with it on the People page.
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Middle Ages
until 1500 · 4 events
01 1304 or 1309 disputed date
First mention
The Bytnica Municipal Office gives the year 1304. German regional studies point to 1309 and a document of the Bishop of Lebus in which the village, recorded as Budechow, appears as property of the Bishopric of Poznań.
02 1 Nov 1405 tradition
The first church
According to a record quoted in the 19th-century village chronicle, the first wooden church in Budachów was consecrated on this day.
03 15th c.
A manor seat
Historians assume that by this time the village already had a manor seat, the forerunner of the later manor house.
04 c. 1500
A fief of the Dohna family
Budachów is held as a fief by the von Donyn (Dona) family, later the Counts zu Dohna.
Early modern period
1500–1800 · 13 events
01 1565
Lady von Baudach
Sources record the estate as a fief of a Lady von Baudach, whose name came from the village.
02 1583
The first of the Löbens
The owner is Siegmund von Löben.
03 1602–1618
Two lords
The village is shared by Zacharias von Löben, who holds the main part of the estate, and Melchior von Grüneberg.
04 1618–1648
The Thirty Years’ War
The war that swept through the Crossen region badly damages the village.
05 16 Jul 1630
The Pannwitz family arrives
George Abraham von Grüneberg sells the estate to Anton von Pannwitz the Elder. The Pannwitz family runs it for more than a century.
06 1718/19
Twenty farms
A survey records 20 farmers and 8 smallholders in the village.
07 1740
The end of the Pannwitz line
The unmarried Friedrich von Pannwitz dies. The indebted estate passes to his sister, Mrs von Stosch, who sells it to Karl Friedrich Scholz.
08 1759
Russian troops in the church
During the Seven Years’ War, Russian troops plunder the church and desecrate the graves in its crypt.
09 Aug 1781
The old church is pulled down
The wooden church is dismantled, and on 28 August the foundation stone of a new brick church is laid.
10 1782–1785 disputed date
The new church
Funded by Karl Friedrich Scholz, the Baroque church now dedicated to St Joseph is built. Some sources give 1782–1784, and the village chronicle records its consecration on 21 September 1783.
11 1789
A pulpit altar and a new lord
The sexton Johann Gottlieb Lindner makes the pulpit altar. In the same year Scholz dies and the estate passes to his son-in-law, Carl Friedrich von Ludwig.
12 c. 1795
The wine tower
A half-timbered pavilion with a wine press is built on the vineyard hill in the park. According to the German chronicle, it was built by von Ludwig.
13 1800
An estate for 45,000 thalers
The estate is bought by Pletz von der Groeben.
19th and early 20th century
1800–1945 · 13 events
01 1806
400 inhabitants
The village has 400 inhabitants in 57 households. On 23 December, Friedrich Gottlieb Klaunig, later the village chronicler, takes up the posts of teacher and cantor.
02 1810
The von Zastrow family
Friedrich Wilhelm von Zastrow buys the estate for 75,000 thalers. In 1830 his son Otto inherits it.
03 8 Mar 1822
A storm topples the tower
A gale throws the church tower onto the roof. A year later the carpenter Hans Zerbe rebuilds it.
04 Dec 1838
The Endell family
Otto von Zastrow sells the estate to government councillor Eduard Endell.
05 1844
Brickworks and tar kiln
Budachów has 541 inhabitants in 69 houses. There is a brickworks and a tar kiln in the hamlet of Hinterbuden.
06 1872–1874
The railway
The railway line from Rzepin (Reppen) to Czerwieńsk (Rothenburg an der Oder) is built as part of the Wrocław–Szczecin route. Budachów gets its station thanks to the efforts of Wilhelm Fournier.
07 1879–1914
A large estate
The estate grows from 1,642 ha in 1879 to 2,155 ha in 1914, including the outlying farms of Skrzywiń and Łasiczyn.
08 9 Dec 1902
Death of Wilhelm Fournier
After the owner’s death, his widow Rose Fournier runs the estate for 25 years, helped by her son-in-law, General Viktor Dallmer.
09 Aug 1926
A new bell
The church receives a bell from the Franz Schilling Söhne foundry in Apolda, replacing one given up during the First World War.
10 29 Apr 1927
The estate is divided
Rose Fournier dies. When the inheritance is divided, the main estate goes to the Dallmer family and a smaller one, with the Łasiczyn farm, to Elisabeth Geisler.
11 1939
630 inhabitants
The last pre-war census records 630 inhabitants and 189 households.
12 1 Feb 1945
The front arrives
The Red Army enters the village. The first houses burn. By the end of the war, almost the whole manor house has burned down too.
13 10 Feb 1945
Expulsion
The German inhabitants are forced to leave. Some return in May, but in the summer of 1945 they are finally expelled.
After 1945
1945–today · 11 events
01 1945
New inhabitants
Budachów becomes part of Poland and is settled by Polish settlers. The village joins the municipality of Bytnica, and the church is adapted for Catholic worship.
02 1950s
The manor house is rebuilt
The burned manor house is rebuilt.
03 5 Oct 1954
Budachów commune
The Provincial National Council in Zielona Góra creates a gromada (rural commune) based in Budachów, covering Budachów, Dobrosułów and Drzewica.
04 1 Jul 1968
The commune is abolished
A resolution of 26 April 1968 abolishing the commune comes into force. Its area is merged into the Bytnica commune.
05 1 Jan 1973
A village district
Budachów becomes a sołectwo (village district) of the re-established municipality of Bytnica.
06 1975
Zielona Góra Province
After an administrative reform, the village belongs to Zielona Góra Province.
07 1979
The wine tower moves to Ochla
The pavilion from the vineyard hill is moved to the Ethnographic Museum in Ochla near Zielona Góra, where it can still be seen today.
08 1980s
The manor house falls into ruin
Abandoned, the manor house decays until only a ruin remains.
09 1 Jan 1999
Lubusz Province
Budachów becomes part of Lubusz Province and Krosno County.
10 2013
Documenting the park
The Lubusz Provincial Monuments Conservator publishes a study of the manor park and points to the need to restore it.
11 every June
Pierogi Festival
On the third Saturday of June, the village hosts the Budachów Pierogi Festival. We do not know when the first festival took place.
This timeline is a work in progress. If you have old photos or documents, or remember when the first Pierogi Festival took place or when Anielskie Ogrody was founded, get in touch and we will add it to this page.