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

VIII Bakony, Balaton-Uplands - VIII-3 House from Mindszentkálla

VIII House from Szentgál The outbuildings, imposing pigsties next to the fence, the grand plastered stone fence of this house from Szentgál built on the hill all set this house apart from its neighbours. The farm must have been in the possession of a well-to-do family owning signifi­cant land and livestock. In fact they were the descen­the u dants of medieval royal hunters from Szentgál who protected their traditions and maintained the noble appear­ances of their houses and interi­or furnishings even after they were reduced from the ranks of the gentry to the middle-class. The house belonging to the Rák and Móri families was built of stone with lime-mortar in the mid-19th century. Almost all rooms are vaulted. The spherical vaults, the vaulted chimney and the small and big ovens beneath

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