Bereczki Ibolya - Cseri Miklós - Sári Zsolt: Ház és Ember, A Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum évkönyve 27. (Szentendre, Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, 2015)

BOKONICS-KRAMLIK MÁRTA: A Fekete-Körös völgye az Erdély épületegyüttesben

Márta Bokonics-Kramlik

THE VALLEY OF FEKETE-KÖRÖS WITHIN THE BUILDING COMPLEX TRANSYLVANIA

The Hungarian Open Air Museum is going to be expanded by the building complex Transylvania. Its development plan was elaborated by Erika VASS and Miklós BUZAS. The original plan was modified in 2013 when the presentation of the region Partium was added to the development concept. The valley of the river Fekete- Körös in Partium is not part of historical Transylvania; it is independent from both Transylvania and the Great Hungarian Plain in terms of geography, administration and ethnography. In the villages of the Upper-Valley inhabited by Hungarians, religious and ethnic endogamy has been preserved, so they represent ethnic islands among the Romanian majority population. Nowadays, however, we witness increasing assimilation. Among others, this is what motivates the presentation of the region in the form of a building complex. A three-room house from Köröstárkány built at the end of the 1800s, typical of the region, has been selected. The dwelling house was dismantled and transported to the Museum in the spring 2014. The building has a half timber structure on beams; the original walls of wattle and daub had been mended by adobe bricks where necessary. The walls inside and outside had been painted blue. In the research of the upper part of the Fekete-Körös region, we cannot avoid the subject of tin gates, representing a peculiarity even among the farmsteads of the Transylvanian building complex. The tin gate belonging to the dwelling house purchased by the Museum was made in 1895. However, the owner refused to sell the gate, therefore we shall make a replica of it, which is so typical of the region. We plan to present in the Museum the time segment 1948, the year when Károly dr. KOS carried out field work in Köröstárkány and in the surrounding villages. While evoking his person, the exhibition invites the profession for self-reflection and the visitors may have a glimpse behind the scenes of ethnographic collection work.

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