Horváth M. Ferenc (szerk.): Vác The heart of the Danube Bend. A historical guide for residents and globetrotters (Vác, 2009)
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The Red House, 1913 At the beginning of the resettlement period after the Ottoman occupation each quarter in the town was populated by people of the same nationality. According to Althann's town land-register, the former Hungarian town was still inhabited by Hungarians, the former Muslim town or castle district by Germans, while outside the town wall, to the south of the Pest Gate (the area south of today's Géza király Square along the main road to Budapest) was inhabited by Slovaks. In the German town, north of the Main Square, mainly Germans lived. Each quarter - especially the German one - was sub-divided according to the inhabitants'jobs: potters, tanners, boot makers, Hungarian Copy of the map of Althann's cadastral register of 1718 Map of Vác, 1850 aHmmn JtrrufX Jrrte, J/kUa t/Znr'n Ókor ■h*<iU4 t Layout of the Red House, 1868 tailors, fishermen, coopers, joiners and cobblers had streets of their own. There were only two street names referring to nationalities: Swabish Street and Jewish Street. Later on this medieval division of the town gave place to a unified one, the southern and the northern part of which was called Alsóváros (Lower Town) and Felsőváros (UpperTown) respectively. The administrative separation of the two parts between 1742 and 1859 did not cause any change in the structure of the town. The landlord of the chapter controlled the old Hungarian town (the area surrounded by Kossuth Street, Görgey Street and Széchenyi Street) and some other groups of houses. The main street was Káptalan Street, where the Town Hall occupied the building which later became the prebendal beer house.
