A Herman Ottó Múzeum Évkönyve 46. (2007)

ELŐADÁSOK A VALLONOK TÖRTENETÉHEZ - Miklós Cseri: Hungarian Open Air Museum Regional unit: Markét town from Northern Hungary

The house of a citizen, Gyöngyös The narrow plot was fully occupied by the L-plan house, which was dismantled in 1981. A cellar was dug under the street-wing of the one-storey house. The entrance to the cellar opens under the gate placed in an arched stone frame. The house was built at the end of the 18

th century of local stone, but the wing in the yard was added later, around 1850. Stone frames surround windows and doors and the Street front is provided with a niche. The three dwelling rooms were heated with ovens and stoves fed from outside. The rooms of the Street wing are equipped with stoves with fiat tiles. Wooden ceilings cover the rooms. The gable roof is placed on collar-beams and tin plates sérve as roof tiles. A privy, a shed and a horse-stable separate the second and the third dwelling quarters. This croft and building included in the group of buildings allow us to evoke the culture of stone architecture organised within the guild of Gyöngyös and the life-style of the catholic citizen/civil servant in a markét town. Besides the reception room of the wealthy owner, the modest room of the vine-dresser, as it used to be in the second half of the 19

th century, is represented in the interiors. Furthermore, the meeting room of the Catholic organisation of the guild of Gyöngyös is part of the exhibition. The utensils of the association preserve the matériái culture of the traditional communities up to the present day. Vinedresser 's house, Gyöngyös The originál house was built in the 1820s. The Museum has dismantled and shell re-erect the U-plan house with two quarters by using authentic matériái. The entrance to the croft is an arched, stone-framed gate characteristic for the streetscape of markét towns. The left wing consists of a row of room, kitchen, pantry, kitchen, room with a brick vaulted cellar under them. Access to the cellar is from the yard. The ríght wing overlooks the street, here is the room of the old parents and the stable. The green stove of concave tiles in the first room and the stack-shaped öven of the back room are stoked from the openings under the open chimney in the first kitchen. The furnishing of the house presents the interior typical for a vine-grower, equipped with a wide selection of products made by the rich local guilds in the 1870s. Local artisans produced the white-glazed ceramics with fllower pattern as well as the cárt and carriage used in hauling. The visitor has a glimpse of what life was in the region during last period of the days of glory before the phylloxera. House of a vinedresser, Mád The last house, closing the Museum's square is a building from Mád, set up on a médium sized long plot. The house was built of local stones at the beginning of the 19

th century. After having dismantled it, the Museum shall rebuild it as an originál building in this region. The shingle-covered hipped gable roof, carried by rafters, stands on collar-beams. Room, kitchen, room and pantry follow each other. Niches in the wall give a special 592