Kovács Zsuzsa: Göcsej Village Museum. Exhibition Guide (Zalaegerszeg, 2008)

farmyard. In the hutches on two or three sides, the poultry had quite a lot of room, and so had the horses, cows and oxen in the stables. From the 1860s agriculture was developing fast, due to the division and allocation of the woods that were used jointly before and also to the fact that people started to turn pasture lands into fields to be able to produce more crops. This resulted in a decrease in animal farming because there was an insufficient food supply for the animals. At the same time hutches and stables began to be dismantled because the enclosed wooden buildings were extremely flammable. This house from Alsócsöde was believed to be the oldest dwelling house in the village. It was built sometime in the beginning or in the middle of the 19th century, the owners cannot tell the exact date. Although one thing is certain: from 1910 on, the farm buildings belonging to the house were knocked down one by one, so when the building was chosen to be exhibited in the museum only the dwelling parts were remaining. Therefore these were reconstructed from surveys of other similar buildings. According to the existing family history, a water mill was operating near the house and the house was the home of the miller. The miller was quite a well-to-do man in the village, he had enough wine to run an occasional wine-house. Accordingly, two tables are placed in the room here so that guests could use the longer one as a kind of pub table.