Horváth M. Ferenc (szerk.): Vác The heart of the Danube Bend. A historical guide for residents and globetrotters (Vác, 2009)
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120 RESETTLEMENT AND THE AGE OF THE GREAT CONSTRUCTIONS - THE 18TH CENTURY for instance Érsekújvár. Cattle heading north-northwest from the Great Hungarian Plain were driven along this road, while goods were transported on the Danube between Belgrade in the Balkans and Vienna in Austria. The "Thirtieth tax" office, which had been moved to Vác from Kecskemét master. At church festivals the members marched under the flag of their guild. They had to take part in putting out fires and keeping order at the market. The rules of each corporation obliged both the members and the apprentices to lead a virtuous life under threat of heavy fines. In this century bunglers were severely punished. Nevertheless, cotters, i.e. landless serfs, together with some of the employees of the manorial estate practised trade outside the guild. The former did these jobs seasonally, mostly in winter, while the manor employed permanent craftsmen. Some of the craftsmen practised trades that were pursued by few people, which is why they were given royal letters patent and thus they could work outside the guild. One of them was the printer Ferenc Ambró, who had settled in our town in 1772, and in 1775 Maria Theresa granted him the exclusive right of operating a printing press. In 1792 The signature and seal of Antal Gottlieb Máramarosi printer, 1856 József Marsai carpenter's masterpiece Several guild masters were among the members of the inner and outer councils of the town; what is more, the chief justice was usually a guild The signature and seal of Ferenc Ambró printer, 1787 his press was bought by Antal Gottlieb Máramarosi. Shipmasters did not have a guild, but they did have regulations made in 1777. They limited the prices in order to exclude “black trade/transport". The. reason for this was that transporting different kinds of goods on the Danube was a lucrative business. If we look at the houses of the town that were built at this time, we can observe various types of building materials. In most cases our ancestors used greyish-brownish or yellowish-reddish sandstone of hard or loose structure exploited from the guarries of Naszály Hill. In the quarries of the bishopric manor stone-cutters produced the stone, which was easy to cut and was used for building walls, foundations, bridges and making gates, window-frames, safety posts, statues and road-side crosses. However, its favourable characteristics were diminished when it met water. Nitrate, hard coal and iron ore were also exploited in Naszály Hill, but the output was so small that work in these pits did not last long. Also, there was a clay-pit near the former village called Naszály, and the clay extracted there was fired in the brick-making house of the chapter. The town was situated along an important land route that linked the towns of the Great Hungarian Plain, primarily Debrecen with the towns of Upper Hungary, rr / -
