”Ornamented farm” hrabiego Fryderyka Wilhelma von Reden w Bukowcu jako nowocześnie prowadzone gospodarstwo rolne na Śląsku
”Ornamented farm” of Count Frederick William von Reden in Bukowiec as a Modern Agricultural Farm in Silesia

Summary/Abstract: Count Frederick William von Reden is mostly known as the founder of Upper Silesian industries based on the development of iron foundry and coal mining, whereas he was also engaged in the implementation of a certain agricultural reform in Prussia. While visiting Great Britain he became interested in landscape gardening. Shortly before he was granted the title of Count, he had purchased a large estate in Bukowiec in Silesia which he then turned into a modern profitbringing agricultural enterprise. He commissioned an architect to rebuild his newly bought manor house as well as to construct new stables, barns and outhouses. He also hired gardeners to create a landscape garden ornamented with picturesque huts, some glass houses and a tea pavilion. After his death in 1815 his widow Countess Frederick von Reden inherited the farm land. She continued the work initiated by her husband almost till the end of her life in 1854. The author of the paper tries to reconstruct the process of transformation of an old-type manor estate into a modern ornamented farm.

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