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

are all of brick. The first room, with a cellar below, was the parlour and only used on special occasions. It contains Biedermeier furniture. The blue stove with yellow applied decoration was possibly made in Herend. The continuity of their hunting tradition is indicated by the doe-leg coat-rack with a shotgun, game-bag and flask hanging on it. The back room is the everyday living room. Older carved furniThe gentry of Bakony Mátyás Bél characterised the gentry of the Bakony in the 18th century thus, "Most of them are attached to the plough and outshine the light of nobility with agriculture" The consciousness of noble origin survived in Szentgál into the 1940s and people insisted on using the titles Sir and Lady. The cohesion of the noble families is indicated by the number of guests invited to weddings which sometimes reached 100 people belonging to 3-4 families. ture with inlaid decoration is to be found here. There is a chest, a corner bench with the name of the owner painted on it and a letter chest in the centre, a bed decorated with colourful sealing wax and inlay and a chair with a carved back. The brick vaulted pantry was used to keep the grain which was stored in the built-in granary. The troughs used for pig killing and hoes were also kept there. The stable is built with stone pillars and has a surbased spherical vault. Horses and cattle were tied in separate feeding boxes. Have a look at the exhibition about the construction of the regional unit in the stable!