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

X Kisalföld - X-5 House from Jánossomorja

The original on which our replica house is based was built in 1857 for a well-to-do master farming 35-45 hectares. The "double" house with a flagged passage in between was built of unburnt X-5 House from I Catholic Germans settied in the flatlands of historic Moson County from the Middle Ages onwards. Owing to their western commercial and cultural connections German communities kept up with contemporary fashion; e.g. cabinetwork was common in their dwellings. Jánossomorja "Moorosh" bricks and covered by reed and tiles. On the two sides of the corridor room-kitchenroom dwelling units face each other The longer wing continues with a stone-lined draw-well with a wooden pulley then 3 pantries and a granary follow, the unit ending in 4 stables for the animals. The heidebauer fodder and hay producing members of the family farmstead carted their products to Austria and Southern Germany. From the 2nd half of the 19th century they became well known for producing sown fodder At the end of the 1800s several eco• Folding table In the passage there is a folding table (Volltisch) with benches. From early spring till late autumn the family had their meals here besides doing household chores. The oldest male member of the family sat on a chair at the head of the table. Children always had their meals separately, after the grown-ups. The folding table remained common in Mosonszentpéter houses till the beginning of the 20th century. B3