March 8th is “International Women's Day”, which arose from the struggle for women's suffrage.
Anita Augspurg and Lida Gustava Heymann pioneered the right to vote for women.
You lived in Peißenberg for a few years.
In November the municipal council decided to name two streets after them.
Peißenberg
- When Anita Augspurg and Lida Gustava Heymann moved into the Siglhof with their dogs and a horse in 1908, it must have been a culture shock for the Peißenbergers: two women who were lovers and didn't live according to the conventions of the time Fought for women's suffrage and dared to manage the 1000-day-work, rather shabby farm with 43 cows, moorland and a peat factory - and that almost exclusively with women.
And then the two exotic women were also successful with it.
Although they had turned down marriage proposals, they turned the run-down farm into a model estate.
The fact that they dealt with these mundane things like gardening and growing vegetables also caused head shakes among the fellow campaigners.
The women's rights activist, editor and journalist, Minna Cauer, who had worked with Anita Augspurg for a while and visited her in the country, wrote in her memoirs: “How can one be satisfied with the spirit of Anita with riding, driving, and bean picking , Weeding, raking and the like. "
The agricultural activity of the two women was also viewed critically by their neighbors.
The public library that Anita Augspurg and Lida Gustava Heymann had set up in the courtyard met with even more skepticism.
Some Peißenbergers took advantage of this offer and borrowed books from Heinrich Heine or Henrik Ibsen, among others.
The pastor then put an end to this suspicious activity by urgently advising against reading the literature of these writers.
But it did not stop at these harmless demarcations: the Siglhof burned twice within five years.
In addition, Anita Augspurg became so ill that the doctors had already given up on her.
In the winter of 1913/1914 the two women left Peißenberg and sold the Siglhof.
Nevertheless, they will probably remain permanently connected to the market town.
In November the Peißenberg municipal council decided that two streets in the new residential area, which is to be built on the former “Finsterwalder estate”, should be named after the two women.
Previously, the municipal council had repeatedly fooled with this step.
The proposal to honor Augspurg and Heymann in the form of streets named after them in Peißenberg was made by the SPD parliamentary group about six years ago.
In 2015, Mühlpointfeld II was discussed as a location for an “Anita Augspurg Street” or “Lida Gustava Heymann Street”.
At that time, however, the municipal council decided against it because the streets and paths in this building area had been named after birds.
The “bird of the year” at that time, the hawk, unanimously won the race.
The two women's rights activists should, however, remain in the administration's proposal list.
A good five years later the time had come: the Peißenberg municipal council decided to name the two access roads in the building area “An der Ludwigstraße II” “Anita-Augspurg-Straße” and “Lida-Gustava-Heymann-Weg”.
In the opinion of the municipal councils, the two streets were particularly suitable because they are connected.
Again there were concerns about the two women as namesake for these two streets and the decision was not unanimous.
But with 15: 8 votes, the majority of the local councils were in favor of naming the streets after the majority of the local councils for the streets after Anita Augspurg and Lida Gustava Heymann.
SPD local councilor Peter Blome said at the time that he was interested in the life's work of the two women's rights activists: "By giving names, we honor people for their lives - and the two women should be honored."