Cseri Miklós, Füzes Endre (szerk.): Ház és ember, A Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum évkönyve 16. (Szentendre, Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, 2003)

ZENTAI TÜNDE:A hidasi ház és telek berendezése

Tünde Zentai FURNISHING OF THE HOUSE AND CROFT FROM HIDAS The curator in charge of the regional unit SouthTransdanubia being under construction in the Hungarian Open Air Museum in Szentendre treats the furnishing plans of one of the houses. The adobe-house of ten rooms was built on stone foundations in the first half of the 19

th century by German inhabitants of Hidas in Baranya county. Tünde ZENTAI selected the house in 1979 to replace the house of Zengővárkony, which was turned into village museum. The house was considered as suitable for presenting the architecture of the German settlers in SouthTransdanubia, as well as the interiors and lifestyle of the Transylvanian Sekler settlers arriving from Bukovina. A big part of the German inhabitants of the counties Baranya and Tolna (also called: Schwäbische Türkei) were deported, and Seklers from Bukovina were settled down here instead. The so called long-house was built in three phases and its ground-plan mirrors the needs of the German extended family of earlier times. The house consists of room, kitchen, room, summer kitchen, pantry, living cum pantry, living cum pantry, stable, shed, barn. The four members of the family Biszak from Andrásfalva moved in in May 1945, but soon the third generation was born and again an extended family lived in the house. The men used to work in the local quarry, and later in the Mecsek hills, therefore the part of the house for farming necessities remained unused. (These are the four last rooms, where the Museum will arrange an exhibition presenting the history of the regional unit.) The family Biszak and the inhabitants of Hidas gave the 622 German and Sekler objects of the furnishing. The interior, the croft and the plants recall the autumn of 1959 and refer to a complex culture, combining Sekler and Germen elements, the traditional peasant world as well as factory products and references to middle-stand. The furnishing is shaped for the needs of the family. The elder couple uses the first room, the kitchen, the summer kitchen and a part of the pantry. The second room, the back of the pantry and one of the living cum pantry (as kitchen) is allocated to the younger couple with two children. The high Sekler bed stands in the first room next to the painted and decorated bridal chest of Mrs. Biszak, which she brought along from Andrásfalva. Some pieces of furniture are products of German joinery. The furnishing of the young couple is more modern: factorymade twin-beds stand in the back room together with accessories, the kitchen is furnished with factory furniture as well. The fencing at the street-side - in the Museum as in Hidas - is a carved masterpiece with stone pillars and iron gates. A flower-garden is in front of the house. The farm buildings face the house: the brick-lined well is brought from Ag, the hen-house was made by Ferenc Biszak, and the pigsty at the back was purchased in Hidas. A fence of laths with a gate made of boards divides the yard in a front- and a back-yard. A similar fence separates the plot of the family extending far in the fields. The croft of Hidas was finished in 2003. It is one of the nine houses on the left-hand side of the museum street. Only the well and the pigsty are original buildings, the others are copies because the local government wished to keep the house, as the previously selected house was kept in the village too.