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 19TH CENTURY - THE CENTURY OF GREAT CHANGES 155 rial prefecture (today an ecclesiastic educational centre). It is modernized in 1853 to Alois Cacciari's designs, and is joined to the two-level cellar under the bishop's palace, which is used as the wine cellar of the manorial estate. In the building of the manorial prefect there is a press house with [collection] vats and basket presses with screw plates. There are also a cart shed, a hooper's house and a Cartwright's workshop. The wine cellar is not managed by the prefecture as they contract it out most of the time. One such tenant is the Reiszmann family in 1898, which have their house in Köztársaság Road. In the nearby St Miklós Square is the “Bad" church, which is used as a barn at this time and pulled down in 1885. The Roman Catholic elementary, later higher elementary, girls' and industrial school run by the St Vincent Order of the Sisters of Mercy is built in its place in 1886. In the 20th century the building houses a mid-town boys' school, then a higher commercial and industrial school. The Town Hall of Chapter's Vác stands in the nearby Káptalan Street where the citizens of Chapter's Vác can settle their affairs until 1859, when the building is converted into a beer house. The neighbouring Kossuth Square with the Arany Csillag Arany Csillag ("Golden Star") Restaurant in Kossuth Square I ("Golden Star") Restaurant (today a music school), the Műcsarnok ("Art Gallery") and the Kaszinó ("Casino") (later Központi - "Central" - or Nemzeti - "National") cafés are favoured places of the local political and intellectual elite. In the first half of the century the butcher's shop of Káptalanvác is in one of the houses in Káptalan Street leading from Kossuth Square to the Main Square. However, a coach factory, founded by István Reitter, starts operating in the same building in 1864 through the 1870s. Eventually it is developed into a steam-powered factory in 1890. (Today it is an exhibition hall of the museum.) !7ftC Káptalan Street, the former Main Street of Chapter's Vác
