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

VI Great Plains - VI-10 Farmstead from Nagykőrös

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II VI-10 Farmstead from Nagykunság families moved permanently from the towns to the farmsteads to live and the buildings were improved. A house of this "new" type built in 1906 from adobe and covered with reed stands on the northern side of the farmyard. It has a pigsty at its end. Opposite the house there is an adobe-walled two-division stable with a reed-covered hipped roof. A circular chicken coop and a sweep-pole well complete the building complex. In Nagykunság it was usual to build the stable and the kitchen Detached farms had almost completely disappeared from the Great Plain by the 1970s and these characteristic buildings have been reconstructed on the basis of a survey by architect László Vargha at the end of the 1930s. In the 19th century farmsteads were the domain of men. They lived there throughout the year to look after the animals. It was only on Sundays that they spent the day with their family in the town house. At the beginning of the 20th century more and more