Cseri Miklós, Füzes Endre (szerk.): Ház és ember, A Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum évkönyve 15. (Tanulmányok Füzes Endre 70. születésnapja alkalmából. Szentendre, Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, 2002)
BÍRÓ FRIDERIKA: Iskola és mesterház Kondorfán a 19. században. Fejezetek Vas megye falusi iskoláinak történetéből II.
SCHOOL AND TEACHER'S QUARTERS IN KONDORFA IN THE 19 th CENTURY Chapters from the history of village schools in Vas county II. The log-walled building of open chimney and thatched roof is an outstanding example of vernacular architecture in Vas County. It was one of those fortunate and rare cases where we could find out who built it for who and, with the help of inscriptions, could identify not only the exact time of construction but also its different phases. The painted inscription on the carved counterlath of wavy lower edge, nailed on the timber gable testifies, besides imparting important data, to the pious feelings of the builders: "LET JESUS' NAME BE PRAISED BY EVERY PEOPLE AND NATION THE GOOD LORD HELPED (THIS HOUSE) WAS BUILT BY GYÖRGY KOVÁCS IN AUGUST OF THE 1826TH." (Translation) Several words announce when the summer beam of the schoolroom was hoisted into place. "THE GOOD LORD HELPED GYÖRGY AND MIHÁLY KOVÁCS BUILT (IT) BY MASTER JÁNOS GYÖRKÉ ON 24 MAY OF THE 1826TH YR." (Translation) The beam was painted green around the engraved words coloured with red paint. Master carpenter János Györké and the owners left one more relic to posterity. When taking down the house we found 2 coins in an indentation of a ground sill. One was minted in 1812 the other in 1816. They lay on a decayed piece of paper in which only 1 or 2 characters were legible. It must have been a message about the owners, the builders, and of those who helped in the work of construction. The schoolhouse was reerected in the Museum in 1991. Its present-day builders also recorded their names for posterity by placing a small letter and some coins into a shallow hole in a sill. Originally it was a three-unit house with room, chimney less kitchen and pantry. In the middle of the 19th century the kitchen was remodelled. The old mud oven was demolished and replaced with a higher, flat top one. The ceiling beams were removed from above and a huge open chimney was raised of bricks. The kitchen was separated into two parts. The back part was the place for cooking and baking, the front one became a smokeless passage opening to the front and back rooms. In the 1860s a teacher lived in the back room and taught in the front one. The building in the museum shows the conditions after remodelling. The furniture in the teacher's room and the schoolroom acquaint us with the special universe of ungraded parish schools in the 1880s. The exhibition in the Kondorfa schoolhouse is a memorial to the so-called peasant teachers who, for centuries, beside services rendered to church and state, and teaching, also tilled their lands, and whose way of life did not differ much from that of the village society.
