Cseri Miklós - Horváth Anita - Szabó Zsuzsanna (szerk.): Discover Rural Hungary!, Guide (Szentendre, Hungarian Open Air Museum, 2007)

VII Southern Transdanubia - VII-11 House from Őcsény

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f and twined around her head; its pF^*, young women wore a special ifJLSr-. shawl with a beaded tassel on a long cord stitched in the bonnet and hanging down at the back. A Sárköz beauty had a round face, round head, round eyes and mouth, thick legs and a podgy appearance. This figure was exaggerated by several petticoats. not in the front. That was used as dwelling room so that they can see what is happening in the street. The parlour at the rear was furnished with ornately painted furniture with flowery motifs. The L-shaped house encloses a yard, covered with bricks. The back garden can be reached through the corn-shed. The affluence in Sárköz indicated by the building and its furnishings can be traced back to the regulation of the River Danube in the 1860s and the drainage of marshy territories which created fertile soils and a flourishing farming community. The family, farming on 25 hectares had an apiary in the end of the yard and fishing equipment was also stored there. The family owned a vineyard on the Őcsény hill which had its own house.