Ikvai Nándor szerk.: Börzsöny néprajza (Studia Comitatensia 5. Szentendre, 1977)

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kept in the lofts above the stables or in stacks. First the barns were made of wood and roofed with thatch, later on they were built of stone with tiled roofs. The planks of the carts were short, yet the carts were provided with long sideplanks for carrying sheaves and fodder. Raspberries became the principal produce of the region. László Novak: Wine-growing in the Ipoly valley Wine-growing was an important branch of production and provided trade directed to the north (towards Slovak, Bohemian and Polish territories) with significant goods until the invasion of phylloxera which destroyed the vineyards in the 1890s. Vines were replanted very slowly and on a small scale, for the household only. Nagybörzsöny constitutes an exception. In this village where wine-growing was practised on the largest area for centuries, the new, regenerated replantations were as large as the formier vineyards or even larger. The wine was kept near the vineyards, in cellars dug into the ground of the presshouses forming a row. László Novak: Settlement-geographic conditions of the north-western part of the Börzsöny mountains The author examines the formation and the changes in the cultivated areas and building sites since the regulation of the land units held in villeinage and of the corvée (urbárium). This regulation took place in the 1780s. In the northern region villages of long, ribbon-like building sites took shape When the growing families built their houses one behind the other or enlarged them rearwards. An average unit of land held in villeinage extended over 25 cadastral yokes (composed of 18 yokes of arable land and 6 yokes of hay field, vineyard, hemp- and cabbage-field). The land was divided into plots by inheritance, a process wich was accelerated by trade after 1848. The scene of farming was the land around the house and the neighbourhood of the presshouse in the vineyard. In villages of smaller outlaying fields common threshing yards were also to be found. Péter Halász—Vilmos Suda: Changes in the popular architecture and of the way of using the dwellings in the region of the Börzsöny mountains The architecture of the region shows a state of transition among those of the Hungarian North-western Plain, the northern „palóc" region and the Great Hungarian Plain. The communities developed in a street system in which the houses are arranged in the form of the teeth of a comb or, more rarely, in a serrated form. After the First World War the spreading of bourgeois habits was to be strongly felt in the building and furnishing of the houses. The remnants of wooden structures have been preserved in some farm buildings. Stone was the principal building material and mainly thatch was used for roofing. The houses were divided in three parts. The use of open chimneys ceased from the turn of the century. During the interwar period Lnshaped houses were built whereas the new ones are square, almost without any farming area. 678