Dobosy László: Gömörszőlős : egy gömöri falu néprajzi monográfiája (Borsodi Kismonográfiák 19. Miskolc, 1985)

A village in Gömör - Gömörszfflős (Sumtiary) The original name of the habitation was Poszoba - Slavic personal name. In charter it appears in 1232 at first. In 1906 its name was changed to Gömorszőlős - to the memory of the extensive vine - lands. It was a feudal village, belonging to the landowners. The often changing landowners did not live in the village so the inhabitants had more liberty. The closed habitation developed slowly. In 1920 they yet carried on a lawsuit against a woman in Poszoba. Among the frequent elementary damage the haviest was the flood in 1879. After the liberation in 1944. 17th of December the village was electrified. The bus line insured the inhabitants of the village to take up work in the near industrial works. This possibility increased the fall of the inhabitants' number. In 1980 the village had only 176 inhabitants. Gömörszólós was always the companion village of Kelemér and was the affiliated church of the Presbyterian perish of Kelemér. In 1824 a new stone church was built - with coffered ceiling - instead of the ancient wooden church. The school was built in 1817. Becouse of the configurations of the terrain the settlement is irregulary intensive with one-street. Connected street view, some long pieces of ground can be found only in the southern part of the village in a short section. During the years the agriculture was regressed and the houses and the farm-buildings were transformed with the modification of the occupation. The order of the arrangement of the pieces of ground shows great change becouse of the shape of the parcels. In sane of them the living court, the farm-yard and the garden is well separeted. The barns and sties they built themselves what proves well their high-class readiness. The living houses earlier were breastsummer wooden and columned houses. They made also mud-flake houses. Earlier they built wooden veranda later it was made of bricks. From the turn of the century they built adobe houses. The straw- and gabled roof were gradually changed into tiled roof. The wooden verandas were made nicer with richly decoratived sawa ornaments. They were made by the local farmers who were master in woodwork. During the last century they built houses what consisted of first-room, pitvar and lastroom. They often built pantry and next to it the stable. In the thirties 50 per cent of the socage possession was in the property of the Family Kovács. In 1945 was 12 such farmers whose land had to been 78