Budchulū - Budchulū

View over the cemetery to the village
Budchulū · ‏بدخلو‎
GovernorateNew valley
Residents
1.834 (2006)
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Budchulū

Budchulu (engl. Budkhulu, also Budchula / Budkhula, Abu Dakhlu, Abu Dokhlu, Badakhlou, Arabic:بدخلو‎, Budchulū) is a village in northwestern the egyptian Sink ed-Dāchla. It is one of the oldest settlements in the valley. The old village center, lying in ruins, still has its charm.

background

The village Budchulū is located 21 kilometers north of the city Courage on both sides of the trunk road, the Mūṭ with el-Qaṣr connects, with the main part of the village being on the west side of the road. The village was once built between three low marl hills, the two larger ones are in the northeast and southwest of the village. Meanwhile, the village is already expanding in the southwest behind the hill. Budchulū is the smallest place with its own ʿAround, the mayor.

The village was first mentioned by the Egyptian historian Ibn Duqmāq (1349-1407) in his list of 24 localities in the valley.[1] The settlement had vineyards and rice was grown. Ibn Duqmāq uses the old name Beit Chulū (Arabic:بيت خلو) What House of Chulū means. The German ethnologist Frank Bliss guessed that so Beit el-Chāl (Arabic:بيت الخال) What could be meant as Maternal uncle's house is to be translated.

The village certainly existed earlier. At least the Arab-Spanish historian reported el-Bakrī (1014-1094) that there are a number of closely spaced villages between el-Qaṣr and el-Qalamun gave.[2] Archaeologically datable documents only date from the 18th century. The oldest inscribed lintel beam bears the year 1783 (1197 AH), the oldest stone the year 1763/1764 (1177 AH).[3] The surveys of the local population by Bliss revealed that three families saw their origins in "Roman times". The genealogy of the family of Sheikh Seif ed-Dīn, who came from the upper Nile valley, begins at the beginning of the 18th century.

The village has been mentioned several times since the beginning of the 19th century, even if information about the village is rather sparse. The Italian Bernardino Drovetti (1776-1852) was only passing through in 1819,[4] the Briton John Gardner Wilkinson (1797–1875), who stayed here in 1825, reported about 400 men living in the village.[5] The German African explorer reported in somewhat more detail in 1874 Gerhard Rohlfs (1831–1896).[6] He named the location of the village between the hills in the middle of palm gardens, 2,400 inhabitants and 8,000 palm and olive trees. British cartographer Hugh John Llewellyn Beadnell (1874–1944) gave 583 inhabitants for 1897.[7] In 1908 the American Egyptologist traveled Herbert Eustis Winlock (1884–1950) through the village and mentioned its location between three hills and the cemetery on the southern hill.[8] In 2006 there were 1,834 residents here.[9]

The main livelihood of the local population is agriculture. Oranges, lemons, olives and apricots are mainly grown in orchards. There are other, almost independent farmsteads in the vicinity of the village.

getting there

The 1 Village(25 ° 38 ′ 3 ″ N.28 ° 54 '58 "E.) can be reached via the trunk road from ed-Dāchla to Qaṣr ed-Dāchla and el-Farafra. It is about 21 kilometers from the valley capital Courage away. The village can also be reached from Mūṭ by minibus.

mobility

In particular, the old village center and the cemetery hill can only be reached on foot.

Tourist Attractions

Old graveyard
Graves in the cemetery
Street in the old village
Facade of a house
Minaret of the old mosque
Dilapidated houses in Budchulū
Inside the old mosque

The old village center is located quite centrally in the north of the village. The partly medieval buildings are similar to those in el-Qaṣr. The destruction continues, however.

The most important building is the old one mosque with its minaret, both of which are still preserved. The approximately 15 meter high minaret consists of a square substructure with a round superstructure. The mosque is simple and has a prayer niche, Mihrab, and a brick pulpit, Minbar, with wooden railing. The roof of the mosque, which consists of palm trunks and palm leaves, rests on two squat columns.

The former Houses had two or three storeys. The upper limit of the doors was formed by a semicircular gable above the wooden lintel. The facade was decorated in individual cases with multi-colored brick patterns. The windows were rather small. The houses were equipped with a roof terrace, which bordered a parapet made of palm branches.

On the hill in the southwest of the village is the graveyard. Most of the graves date from the Ottoman period. There are also several square domed graves of sheikhs in the cemetery. The dome graves usually also have a courtyard surrounded by a brick wall.

accommodation

1  Al Tarfa Desert Sanctuary Lodge & Spa, Ain el Dome, El Mansura, Budkhulu. Tel.: 20 (0)92 910 5007, (0)92 910 5008, (0)92 910 5009, Fax: 20 (0)92 910 5006, Email: . The Ecolodge, which opened in 2008 in the traditional style with stone and adobe architecture and ceilings made of palm trunks and palm leaves, is located southeast of Budchulū and has 20 rooms for 246/376, 280/414 and 313/483 euros in the Superior Room, in the Oasis Suite or Sahara Suite (double / single) per person and night (full board without taxes, as of 9/2010), a restaurant, lounge and bar, a health club with pool and sauna and a large swimming pool. Prices over Easter and the turn of the year are higher. The large chalets have a living room, a bedroom, bathroom, safe, air conditioning and electricity. But the ravages of time are already gnawing at the lodge. The lodge is only managed during the season, a reservation is necessary. To get to the lodge, turn into the ʿIzbat el-Manṣūra area 1 25 ° 35 ′ 45 ″ N.28 ° 54 '46 "E to the east from the trunk road. After 1250 meters one branches off 2 25 ° 36 ′ 3 ″ N.28 ° 55 ′ 20 ″ E turn left onto the sandy slope and reach the lodge after one kilometer.(25 ° 36 ′ 21 ″ N.28 ° 55 '34 "E.)

There are more accommodations in courage, in Qasr ed-Dachla and along this road to el-Farafra.

trips

It is advisable to visit the village with the ruins of the monastery Deir Abū Mattā and the village el-Qalamun connect to.

literature

  • Bliss, Frank: Economic and social change in the “New Valley” of Egypt: on the effects of Egyptian regional development policy in the oases of the western desert. Bonn: Political working group for schools, 1989, Contributions to cultural studies; 12th, ISBN 978-3921876145 , Pp. 89, 100 f.
  • Museum Schloss Schönebeck (Ed.): Photographs from the Libyan desert: an expedition by the Africa explorer Gerhard Rohlfs in 1873/74, photographed by Philipp Remelé. Bremen: Ed. Temmen, 2002, ISBN 978-3861087915 , Pp. 65-68. The photographs show the village from the outside. The minaret of the mosque stands out again and again.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑Ibn-Duqmāq, Ibrāhīm Ibn-Muḥammad: Kitāb al-Intiṣār li-wāsiṭat ʿiqd al-amṣār; al-Guzʿ 5. Būlāq: al-Maṭbaʿa al-Kubrā al-Amīrīya, 1310 AH [1893], p. 11 below – 12, in particular p. 12, lines 11 f.
  2. ↑El-Bekri, Abou-Obeid; Slane, William MacGuckin de: Description de l’Afrique septentrionale, Paris: Impr. Impérial, 1859, p. 40.
  3. ↑Décobert, Christian; Gril, Denis: Linteaux à épigraphes de l’Oasis de Dakhla, Le Caire: Inst. Français d’Archéologie Orientale, 1981, (Annales islamologiques: Supplément; 1).
  4. ↑Drovetti, [Bernardino]: Journal d’un voyage à la vallée de Dakel, in: Cailliaud, Frédéric; Jomard, M. (ed.): Voyage à l’Oasis de Thèbes et dans les déserts situés à l’Orient et à l’Occident de la Thébaïde fait pendant les années 1815, 1816, 1817 et 1818, Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1821, pp. 99-105, especially p. 104.
  5. ↑Wilkinson, John Gardner: Modern Egypt and Thebes: being a description of Egypt; including the information required for travelers in that country; Vol.2. London: Murray, 1843, P. 365.
  6. ↑Rohlfs, Gerhard: Three months in the Libyan desert. Cassel: Fisherman, 1875, Pp. 244, 294 f.Reprinted Cologne: Heinrich-Barth-Institut, 1996, ISBN 978-3-927688-10-0 .
  7. ↑Beadnell, Hugh John Llewellyn: Dakhla Oasis. Its topography and geology, Cairo, 1901, (Egyptian Geological Survey Report; 1899.4).
  8. ↑Winlock, H [erbert] E [ustis]: Ed Dākhleh Oasis: Journal of a camel trip made in 1908, New York: Metropolitan Museum, 1936, p. 24.
  9. ↑Population according to the 2006 Egyptian census, accessed June 3, 2014.
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