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

IX Western Transdanubia - IX-6 House from Baglad

IX IX-15 House from Réd

ics The log walled house, relocated from Baglad, was built for Péter Zakál, a member of a minor gentry family. In the 1930s his grand daughter Anna Zakál and her husband, Károly Varga owned the house. They had six children. Károly Varga managed a 8-9 hectare-farm and was elected magistrate of the village by the municipal council. He conducted the village affairs in his own home. It was his duty to ensure that county and national statutes were carried out and obeyed. He also acted as judge in certain matters. He worked with the jury, • Kitchen with internally accessible flue a^pomlndot statte« n.<pf'amf safrajsi | 1 rrjwfj«. 1 iff'/mifi'inik« irosár -—1 * úákilMlMhMi The house was modernised by its owner Károly Varga in the early 1930s. The oven of the black kitchen was removed and the room turned into a smoke-free habitable kitchen. The old earthenware oven was replaced by a combined oven with an internally accessible flue covered with ironwork and copper-plating. The iron hot-plate was used for cooking. The two compartment oven, used by Anna Zakál to bake cakes or potatoes is located above flat iron cooking surface. Above the oven there is a small built-in copper cauldron for heating water There is also a built-in bread oven. The oven flue is on the adjacent wall with the two-part door of the cauldron below it and the door of the chimney above. The system got its Hungarian name because a sweep could climb into the chimney from here. üií^iimiuhi. I iWiiHiiiiiiimi