Urbs - Magyar várostörténeti évkönyv 3. (Budapest, 2008)

Abstracts

properties and the land properties of the West-Hungarian new aristocrat (land properties of Batthyány, Nádasdy, Esterházy, Széchy). ANDRÁS SZABÓ The Hungarian priests and teachers of Kassa in the second half of the sixteenth century The town of Kassa became protestant in the second half of the sixteenth century, and as in the leadership of the town, the same way also in church life German nationality preserved its leading role. The burghership consisted of Germans, Hungarians and (very much in the minority) Slavonic/Slovakian people. The composition of the preachers of the town developed in line with this, but the leading priest was always German. At the end of the 1550ies in North Eastern Hungary the separation of the two large protestant denominations started, but the town council of Kassa did not allow the Hungarians to join the Calvinists. This resulted in permanent tension and dualism, which were made only more colourful by the theological commotions within the Lutheran church. Hungarian preachers and chaplains were often dismissed, however, at the same time, in the years of the 1580ies already Calvinist dean Gáspár Károlyi consecrated those Hungarian priests, who were officially employed by the Lutheran parish of Kassa. The dualism of the 16th century was stabilised in the beginning of the next century by Péter Alvinci's Hungarian preachership, which was balancing between the two denominations. ATTILA SZABÓ Regulations of the leading bodies of the towns of the Pest-Pilis-Solt county based on ethnic, religious and social legal status at the end of the feudalism The settlements of the Pest-Pilis-Solt county located in the middle of the country were gravely destroyed in the last decades of Ottoman reigriing, but especially during the liberation fights. In the decades that followed 1711 not only the descendants of the former Hungarian population returned to the depopulated lands of their ancestors, but