Kecskés Péter (szerk.): Upper Tisza region (Regional Units of Open Air Museum. Szentendre, Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, 1980)

3. THE MUSEUM VILLAGE

expense of the church-community according to written evidence. The belfry of Nemesborzova is not as old, both its style prove it to be 18th century and a date on the tin flag on top states: „1794" (111. 56.). The belfry is really a wooden tower, its construction of oakbeams. Its basic logs were placed according to a 5x5 construction plan and the intersections of the beams were joined with supporters and albow-beams. The whole body of the tower consists of a most complicated system of cross-beams, supporters and so-called „Andrew'-bindings. High up on the tower above the „wreathbeams" there is a balcony all around with boards around it supported be columns. The high pointed roof has a beam in the middle called an „emperor"-beam („császárfa"), and very steep rafters; in each corner is a small tower called „sons-of-the-tower" („fiatorony"). The whole belfry is covered with wooden shingles. The very top of the tower end in a half-moon and a star, and on each of the four 57. A cross section of the belfry from Nemesborzova and a detail of the knob on one of the knob on one of the small turrets j" 73