Urbs - Magyar Várostörténeti Évkönyv 10-11. (Budapest, 2017)
Abstracts
456 Abstracts milling industry from the 14th century. In downtown Miskolc there were three mills in the 15th century but their productivity and technical characteristics are not described in the sources. The Diósgyőr royal castle district did not have a mill here; one of the mills was owned by an elite family of the region, and two mills worked as church foundations (Papmalma and the mill of the Diósgyőr Paulite monastery). The mill of the parish was established in the very centre of the town, so it was part of the medieval church centre of the market-town. At the end of the 17th century there were already seven mills in Miskolc. The ownership structure did not change under the Turkish occupation. The noble families and the Church retained the mills when the estate had gone to pledgees and Papmalma had become the property of the Reformed Church instead of the Catholic priest. Two mills remained Catholic foundations. A relatively wide mill-race was built to the Papmalom, thus the topography of Miskolc was broadened with a new element, an island. The mills were used for industrial purposes as well. The number of the mills did not change in the 18th century, because with 7-8 mills the maximum capacity was reached in the economic and hydrographic, ecological system of the small river. There was a change in the ownership; the estate obtained the mill in the Diósgyőr district and established an industrial centre around it. Owing to the industrial activity, the water was not hygienic but there were some precedents when the river was used for bathing. A Jewish ritual báth was established on the mill-race of Papmalom at the beginning of the 19th century. The mills were economically beneficial but constituted a risk to the town, which was threatened by floods anyway. The mill-races, dikes and buildings prevented the natural flow and impeded the modem water and urban regulation. PÉTER KALOCSAI The impact of the hydroelectric power station of Ikervár on the Westem-Transdanubian urban development (1895-1914) The Electric Shareholding Company of Vasvármegye, which had been established in 1895, built a hydroelectric power station, utilising the about 8 metres fall of the river Rába at Ikervár. As part of the project, in 1896 the Szombathely and in 1900 the Sopron main power supply networks were put into operation. 1. The paper examines the following problems:How and to what extent did the utilisation of the water power of Ikervár contribute to the modernization of Westem-Trans-
