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

II Upland Market Town - II-3 House from Hejce

11-2 House from Toka

j I Early one morning, in the spring of 1880, the family of István Kovács Meszes bid him farewell as he set off with a wine supply. The display shows the significance of wine trade, characteristic in the region through the household of a smallholder in Hejce. Hejce was the smallest market town in Abaúj County at the end of the 19th century. The stone house from the 1780s, which still stands in the main street of the village, has been copied at the museum. The building with gabled, tiled roof, erected from local stone has a long, hollowed cellar underneath. The press house with trough vault opens from the front facade. It functioned as a temporary tavern. The stone houses of Gönc and Hejce are traditionally built in the Hussite style which is medieval, German and urban in character The buildings, making use of the fortress-constructing traditions were archaized in peoples minds and thought to be older than they really are. A characteristic of this type of building is the inner staircase, leading from the kitchen to the press house, where a hollowed passage leads to the cellar The walls of the room are decorated with patriotic pictures like in most Protestant homes of the age. An interesting picture on the side-wall shows three different pictures from three different angles. In the press house • IB M