Urbs - Magyar várostörténeti évkönyv 4. (Budapest, 2009)
Recenziók
Abstracts 441 The most outstanding finding from the excavation is a medieval building at the western end of the plot of modern address Fő u. 36. The 8 metre-wide building, oriented east-west, was more than 30 metres long, its western end lying at an indeterminable point under highway 11. It was divided into four rooms of dimensions 5x7 and 5x8 metres. If the fourth room was of similar size, then the building must have been about 34 metres long. A narrow passage ran along the south side of the building, narrowing gradually from east to west. What have been discovered are mostly foundation walls, and no door openings have survived. The walls are about 80-100 cm thick, but the inner passage wall and the partition walls were thinner, with weaker foundations, and there was a groove along their wall crown. The floor level of the building has survived only in the two eastern rooms: it consisted of small stones compacted into a hard surface. (Height 103.30-103.50 above Baltic sea level.) Objects found inside, and an earlier pool outside, date the house to the 15th century. The four-room building may have had a partly stone, partly timber structure: its outer walls were of stone, and its interior partition walls may have had a structure of timber beams set on stone walls. No special findings have indicated its function, but its size, structure and proximity to the Danube suggests a link to commercial activity. In its floor plan, it shows an affinity to a 13th-15th century apothecary building found at Lajos u. 158 in Óbuda, there are two other late medieval stone buildings in the vicinity. One stood to the north (Fő u. 32) and was used as a metalworking workshop in the 15th century. The other stood to the east (Fő u. 34) and was used as a bone workshop in the 14th century. The area excavated in 2003-2004 formed part of the medieval town, but it was not densely built up. Stone buildings edged the area to the east (Fő u. 34), west (Fő u. 36) and north (Fő u. 32). The area enclosed by the buildings included a lean-to timber workshop and was crossed by streets, with a wider street running along the western side. It is possible that in a certain period some of the town’s trade was situated on the area. JUDIT MAJOROSSY The elements of the civic usage of space in late medieval Pressburg The study explores some elements of the civic usage of space in late medieval Pressburg, with special emphasis on certain issues. First of all, it discusses the methods and obstacles of reconstructing the parish territories as well as the place of the parishes and the other ecclesiastical institutions in the urban space as was determined by the (benefaction) attitude and spatial perception of the burghers. Secondly, it examines the intertwining of ecclesiastical and secular space during some public events (such as, for example, the Corpus Christi procession or the flamboyant parade after the annual
