Kenyeres István (szerk.): Urbs. Magyar Várostörténeti Évkönyv XVI. - Urbs 16. (Budapest, 2022)
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476 Abstracts The association also supported its members and local vine growers in their fight against the disease, by selecting the spray and lending them a sprayer. A decisive factor in the development of local viticulture was the selling of cheap, healthy, and noble grape cuttings by the Baja Fruit Growers’Association. It also played a role in the spread of new grape varieties. People could also learn and practise pruning at the association’s farm, Rezső-telep. Several times (1894, 1895, 1902, 1904) it organised wine and produce exhibitions to improve wine production and viticulture in the area. Most of the major vineyard owners in Baja in the 1910s were members of the association or had previously participated in the work of the Baja Fruit Growers’ Association. The almost only nationally known association in the town was the Baja Fruit Growers’Association. The Association did not achieve its economic goal - the large-scale expansion of fruit growing in Baja and the surrounding countryside - but it became a local centre for the development of horticulture and viticulture and contributed to the production of good wine in Baja. István Gaucík The Self-Organisation of Pozsony Vine-Growers in the Second Half of the 19th Century Pozsony - the former Hungarian coronation town - was one of the most civic cities in historic Hungary. Populated by Germans with a “Pressburger” consciousness, Hungarians, and Slovaks, as well as a wide range of dual identities, it is a regional centre that can be considered both the “gateway” to Vienna and the “capital of Western Hungary”. Its social, economic, and cultural importance increased during the period of dualism. This was the result of complex and long-lasting social processes as well as a strong economic modernisation and cultural development. One of the distinctive features of the socially differentiated Pozsony bourgeoisie and middle class in the long 19th century was the association life, which was divided along denominational, professional, and ethnic lines. The city’s viticulture was based on rich medieval traditions. The vineyard and the wine trade were an important pillar of the wealth and social status of the city’s bourgeoisie, and a measure of its status. The very first initiative of wine trade dates back to 1455, to the activities of the Bürgerliche Weingärten. The Pozsony Vine-Growers’ Association, which was one of the longest running associations in the city, played an important role not only in the self-organisation of the community, but also in the fields of viticulture and trade, and vocational training. The association, which brought together the city’s vine growers, was founded in 1861
