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

X Kisalföld - X-4 House from Harka

An unusual object in the room is the Todesz truija, the funeral chest which young couples were given on their wedding and kept on top of the bed. It contains the funeral "trousseau": a richly embroidered, lace-trimmed shroud, an ornamental funeral towel, two funeral sheets, a white cover for the mirror and tablecloths for the funeral feast. All the pieces of this rare ensemble were made in the 1880-90S. Adjoining the long house there are several rooms: a presschamber equipped with a press dating back to 1773 and other equipment used for wine-making; and brick-walled and -vaulted stables at the end of the building complex. • Barns At the end of the yard of Harka there are two barns built from brick and stone relocated from Fertőrákos and Balf. It was characteristic of the region to build barns at the end of yards set at a right angle so that the settlement was "fenced off" by the barns, which then had an entrance from outside. Barns were used for storing hay and previously for threshing, which was a long process. m