Hungarian-German married couple finds perfection in the Hungarian countryside
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Their motto is “gold from lead, reality from dream.”
Once there were two young people: Anne, a woman from Germany and Szilárd, a man from Hungary. According to 24.hu, they were still children when they met: as Lake Balaton used to be the Riviera for the people of the German Democratic Republic, and Anne’s family also loved the atmosphere of the “Hungarian Sea”, they were recurring guests of the guest house of Szilárd’s family in Balatonlelle during the middle 90s. There was no stopping after that: love evolved, then love became marriage, and their marriage gifted them with two children.
The couple has stepped into the age of Christ this year. After constantly being on move on the Northern Sea-Lake Balaton axis for years, they finally settled down in the hills of Zala on an estate in Nemessándorháza. They have made the life-changing decision: they will establish a self-sufficient economy.
They began their life together in Germany as both completed university there. Anne studied agricultural studies – which might have been her first step towards establishing an own economy – and Szilárd studied linguistics. More specifically he learned the sign language of the deaf. He is currently working at Pannon University as a scholarship researcher.
Their daughters were born in Germany: first Hannah, who will become 6 in June, then Emma, who turned 3 in January. They used to live an ordinary urban life there, but in the recent years, they came with the idea of a self-sufficient family community. “We were inspired by those Hungarian and German family and community efforts, which aimed for creating a self-sufficient, ecological lifestyle and a new type of a communion,” as Szilárd states.
They began the work on their dream in 2016, which they named the “Family Garden of Love”, because family and love have been decisive factors in both of their lives. The beginning was not easy on the territory covered with weed, but they received a lot of help from their neighbors and other people from the village.
