F. Mentényi Klára szerk.: Műemlékvédelmi Szemle 1992/1. szám Az Országos Műemléki Felügyelőség tájékoztatója (Budapest, 1992)

MŰHELY - Summaries

Károly SONKOLY: The investigation of the facade and restoration of a town-house in Pécs (Király sír. 21.) As a result of the archaeological investigation in 1990 and the complementary archival researches the following building history could be outlined: Walls from the Middle and Turkish Ages haven't been found during the investigation of the facades however the groundplot could be built up in that time. The two houses presumably of medieval origin were mentioned in 1695 but they were not found in the sources in 1722 yet No doubt they were destroyed. The ground-plot was already divided two separate parts in 1722. In the west side of it there was a smaller, modest house to which a storey was added in the middle of the 1740*3 years. At the comer a one-storey house took place built of better quality building material. The owner of this house, György Stipanovics was a Croatian merchant. Design of the development in unbroken rows was related to the names of his descendants in 1774. In that time could be built the split-level, low side-wing along the present Műr Street in the east side of the building at the comer. In 1783 thetwo properties were laid in one hand. During the unification the court-wing of the westsmaller house was demolished and instead of it there was built a new longer wing at the border of the building site. A staircase also was located in there. The cortile was surrounded by that new, U-shaped building, and the rooms could be reached on the sidecorridor situated downstairs and upstairs along the side-wing. The unified south facade was formed in the style of the age of Louis XVI. The property was in possession of the Blauhom merchant family. The buildings in the courtyard were built in the middle of the century and the tall fence in the Mór Street dated back to that time, too. On the ground floor the windows of the facade were reconstructed doors to the various stores behind them. Their frames and openings often changed during the last hundred years. The present restoration set as an aim the replacing of the situation of the late 18th century on the floor of the facade in Király and Mór Street and on the ground floor it aimed the replacing of the stone-frame portal of the 19th century. Gábor BOGNÁR: The Csányi bequest The photographs of Károly Csányi, late professor of the Technical University Budapest, have been bequeathed to the archive of the Hungarian Inspectorate of Historic Monuments and are to be found there today. The rest of his bequest is not known. Károly Csányi (1873-1955) was professor of the History of Art and of Architecture at the Technical University. With his sudents and his first assistant Géza Lux he visited all the important medieval monuments of the country, and discovered many, hardly known buildings, taking photographs and measurements of them. Most of the photos in the collection were made by him personally, others are the works of different famous colleagues of his; moreover there are postcard, newspaper cut-outs with the picture of, and articles on different monuments, excavations and reconstructions. There are more than 10.000 loose cards on which he arranged the material, putting as much on a single item as would fit. The significance of the collection lies in the fact that in it, almost all the important medieval monuments in Hungary can be viewed side by side; the amount of the material would and could never allow a full publication of it. There are many buildings in the collection which stand in neighbouring countries today, and certain photographs are quite unique, or represent buildings which are not documented in the photography collection of the institute like most of Csányi's personal shots and others taken by contemporary experts, who did not hand it over to the Collections of the MOB (the predecessor of the present Inspectorate).