Cseri Miklós, Füzes Endre (szerk.): Ház és ember, A Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum évkönyve 6. (Szentendre, Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, 1990)

BALASSA M. IVÁN: Az Alsó-Garam menti magyar falvak települése, építkezése és lakásberendezése

Valeria FARKASOVÁ from Kőhídgyarmat must have been very similar to it. Ján MJARTAN characterizes this oven with the term siska and its variant forms. The territories where it was widespread are the Bán-völgy (Banovskej doline), Felső-Nyitra (Hornej Nitry) and on the south along the river Danube. As it is indicated in the Magyar Nyelv Atlasz (the Atlas of Hungarian Language) the term was used in Nyitragelencsér (Nitrianske Hrncarovce), Barslédec (Ladice), Nagyhirind (Veiké Chyndice) and Bajka (Bajka). It was also known in Bény, here, however it was applied to the bench surrounding the oven. According to the Etnograficky Atlas Slovenska (Ethnographical Atlas of Slovakia) the term siska is known in Nyitraperjés (Prasice), Kolozs (Velky Klíz), Családka (CeTadnice), Gimeskosztolány (Kostolani pod Tribecom), Neved (Nevizdany), Nagycétény (Veiky Cetin) and Csata (Cata). A summary of the question has been provided recently by Ildikó I, SÁNDOR who, when examining the changes in heating devices in the western area of the Börzsöny Mountains, stated that, among others, the occurrence of siska ovens (siskakemence) demonstrate the ties of the area examined by her with its northern and and nort-eastern neigbours. When examining how the traditional heating devices fell out of use, research workers have up to now devoted comparatively little attention to the so-called vindóflis oven. This combined device for firing and smoke removal appears, fairly significantly, on the borderline between the types characteristic of the Great Hungarian Plain and the one dominant on the north, i. e. in the southern part of Heves and Nógrád counties, the areas of Pest county belonging to this zone and, as we have seen, along the lower reaches of the river Garam. Antal FILEP makes no mention of encountering either the oven or the term is territories to the west. Summing up the experiences gained in the course of studying the folk achitecture of Szőgyén, Bart, Bény and Kisgyarmat. I feel, this area is a meeting point in many respects of dwelling houses characteristic of the Great Hungarian Plain and the territory extending to the north of it. There are several phenomena leading to the conclusion that in a period, that cannot be exactly placed in time, the borderline of two territories, each with a vernacular architecture starting from different beginnings and developing in different directions, ran right along the river Garam. Most of the features discovered during the present research seem to evidence that the dwelling houses in the villages examined are closer to the type that prevailed in the Great Hungarian Plain. Some data, on the other hand, points to the possibility that another type that was more characteristic of Northern Hungary also had its role in the development of peasant houses along the lower reaches of the river Garam.