Virág Árpád: A Sió és a Balaton közös története. 1055–2005 (KÖZDOK Kft., Budapest, 2005)
The common history of Lake Balaton and the Sió Canal (1055–2005)
530 THE COMMON HISTORY OF LAKE BALATON AND THE SIÓ CANAL (1055-2005) Signature of Sámuel Krieger (1746-1781), a partner of Ferenc Böhm and his successor on the Sárvíz regulation project. He was the first to plot a detailed map of Lake Balaton (1776) and author of the Sió and Balaton regulation project / 170 Tihany Abbey in the late 19th century, where the Balaton regulation committee convened on July 6, 1776 / 173 Chapter VI Signature of Count Ferenc Zichy (1777-1839) / 202 Count Ferenc Zichy, royal commissioner of the Sárvíz regulation project from 1812 to 1825 / 203 The Malom canal (mill race, to the left) and the Nádor canal (to the right) at Szabadbattyán, both built in the wake of the Sárvíz regulation project / 203 The Nádor canal at Örspuszta / 205 The Miklósvár hunting seat of the Zichy counts, then the Esterházy dukes (presently property of Tamási municipality), the venue of important meetings on June 20, 1820, on the Sió and Kapos regulation projects / 207 József Beszédes (1787-1852) association director-engineer, who completed the Sárvíz regulation project, designed and built a number of mill races in Hungary, and was the first engineer to become member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1831) / 208 Recent view of the Sáregres mill built on the Sárvíz mill race in the 19^ century / 211 Left-over monument of the Sárvíz levelling ran by Beszédes, wich was later erected at Soponya / 212 Regulation layout map (1825) of the Sárvíz, Kapos and Sió streams, showing the flood plains together with the outflow from Lake Balaton (retraced version of the original) / 213 József Beszédes has considered the feasibility of a waterway link between Kolozsvár in Transylvania and Graz in Austria. He has published a book on the project in 1839 / 218 Schematic layout of the canal project proposed by Beszédes / 219 Present view of Ádánd manor, where a meeting on Sió regulation was held on May 14, 1832 / 225 First page of the cadastral map prepared in 1834 for the purpose of demonstrating the potential gains of the various counties from the planned regulation of Lake Balaton / 234 Detail of the first page of the „Somogy County Balaton Shore Association” by-laws (the drainage association of Lake Balaton) / 249 Sió regulation scheme of the Somogy County Balaton Shore Association (Balaton drainage association) dating from the 1842-1848 period / 259 Statue of count Nándor Zichy (1829-1911), president of the Nádor canal association from 1857 to 1879, at Budapest / 263 Chapter VII Signature of Gábor Botka, engineer of the Sióberek association, to the drawings and under the guidance of whom construction work on the Sió canal proceeded in the early 1860’s / 283 Signature of count Ferenc Zichy, jr. (1811-1897), „royal commissioner” of Lake Balaton regulation from 1861 to 1865 / 284 Sió regulation drawings of József Klein, railway engineer and Gábor Botka, association engineer (detail, 1863)/285 Right-of-way acquisition map of the villages Fok- Szabadi and Siófok, plotted by the engineers of the Southern Railway Company / 290
