Urbs - Magyar várostörténeti évkönyv 4. (Budapest, 2009)
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444 Abstracts the latter interpreted as a kind of secondary religious space. Monasteries and hospitals were such secondary religious spaces. One or more monasteries or friaries are known of in five of the nine towns in the area studied. The most important written source on the market town parish churches is the Pápa register of tithes for 1332-1335, and whether a town was included in it. A total of four towns were not: Sárospatak, Sátoraljaújhely, Tarcal and Tokaj. The present research has found these parish churches to have been exempt, and thus omitted from the register. The Andrén method was used to link developments in the market towns during the 15thh century - the principal period of their formation - to changes in church floor plans. The study has found that after the towns in Hegyalja were granted oppidum status in the late 14th century, several other smaller market towns emerged under the influence of the wine trade, and in most of them a parish church was built to a very high standard. As a control, the parish churches of the Hegyalja market towns were compared with those of the free royal towns, with allowances for the fact that late medieval free royal towns often had two or more parish churches. Sárospatak, a market town in the highest category, was the only one in Hegyalja with an ecclesiastical topography comparable to that of the free royal towns. Its ecclesiastical buildings, partly because of their capacity and partly owing to the large number of monasteries, puts it on equal rank. On the area studied, which is the part of North Hungary referred to as “without towns”, Sárospatak occupied the position which the free royal towns did elsewhere. LILLA B. BENKHARD Topographical issues in Kőszeg in the medieval and early modern periods (Jurisics tér: institutions, dwelling houses and inhabitants in the light of building history research) Kőszeg lies at Hungary’s western extremity, at the foot of the Kőszeg Hills. It was laid out by aristocratic founders in the 13th century on a site of no previous settlement history, following a regular ground plan integrated with the castle and with a market place at the centre. From its beginning was surrounded by suburbs. Its Hungarian- and German-speaking inhabitants were already growing vines and trading in wine in the 14th and 15th centuries. Based on building history research, the paper attempts to outline the spatial formation of the town centre and the area in front of the town gate, and how the town’s
