Szilasi Ágota, H.: Örökségünk védelme és jövője 4. - Kertek. A Dobó István Vármúzeumban 2018. február 8-9-én megrendezett Tudományos Konferencia tanulmánykötete - Studia Agriensia 37. (Eger, 2018)

Baráz Csaba: A hajdani Szőlőskepuszta promonotóriuma - Régi szőlőhegyek maradványai és a Bükkaljai kőkultúra emlékei a Bükkalján

BARAZ CSABA

CSABA BARÁZ

The Promontory of the Former Szőlőskepuszta

Remnants of Old Vineyards in BOkkalja

Mész-hegy and Nyerges-tető, located in the “heart” of Bükkalja used to be a promontory at Eger’s border (the village of Szőlőske in the Middle Ages, later called Szőlőskepuszta). At present this approx. 150-acre area is a protected site of local importance. The most important assets ot this protected site and its immediate surrounding from a cultural history aspect are the hive rocks and the rock chambers “carved” into rhyolitic tuff which are relics of historic land management and traditional land use.

For vine-growers their vineyard, cellar and/or press-house was their estate. If their vineyard (grapery, hillside planted with vine) was further from the town (village), they usually used a hut (small house with built walls) or a so-called “bújó” (“hideaway”), a chamber carved into the rock as a shelter or a storeroom for their tools and other items. In the Bükkalja vineyards these chambers were very rarely used as cellars for storing wine (those were usually built at the edge of the village, structured into groups or villages of cellars). The now abandoned Szőlőske promontory has been reclaimed by the forest. It also has other landscape elements, such as wells, tapped springs, roads, supporting walls, fences, hedges, a transport history relic from the Middle Ages called „Via ad Szomolya” (“deep road”), as well as a “tithe cellar”, a relic from feudal times.

The lecture discusses the connections between the ancient structures and the organic land use of Bükkalja, and the intensive social dynamics of the area.

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