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

VII Southern Transdanubia - VII-3 House from Zádor

VIII VII-3 Household, Zádor In 1922, Katalin Kerekes, widow of Mihály Takács made an agreement with the Gyócsi couple farming on 2-3 hectares to support her in exchange for the house which was built in i860. Subsequently, Ferenc Gyócsi and Zsófia Berta together with their two-yearold son, József, moved into the first room, whilst the aged owner withdrew into the back room converted from the pantry. The black kitchen was shared, the widow and the young wife working in its separate parts. The kitchen wall is spectacularly decorated with its unwhitewashed surface covered with lime-wash potato-cut star motifs. All the rooms opened from the wooden pillared porch characteristic of all the Southern Transdanubian timber-framed buildings. The thatched dwelling house has walls made of serried poles daubed with mud. The house has no chimney and the smoke escaped through an opening covered by a board above the door You should note the stoves in the front and back rooms both heated from the kitchen. On the chest of drawers facing the door there is a wooden statue of Sándor Petőfi, the great poet. The two families kept their household appliances, tools, produce and food in the timberframed double pantry with wing-walls facing the house which was erected in 1854.