Agria 43. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2007)

B. Gál Edit: Gyöngyösi házak a szentendrei skanzenben

Edit В. Gál Gyöngyös Houses at the Szentendre Open-Air Museum On 27

th May 2006 the section devoted to the Uplands Market Town was opened at the Szentendre Open-Air Ethnographic Museum. Two buildings from Gyöngyös were represented, the one-time Vezekényi utca 14 and Zalka Máté utca 30, together with the statue of St Donatius made in 1759, which stood on the old Gyöngyös-Szurdokpart. The buildings were given protected status in 1968, before being dismantled stone by stone and transported to Szentendre. Both buildings were probably built in the first part of the 19th century. One of them, which had an L-shaped groundplan, being the larger of the two, stood next to the town's hospital, near the centre of the town, on land belonging to the Eszterházys, while the other, the craftsman's and gardener's house stood just behind the Orczy residence's English-style garden. This latter building was extensively enlarged in the 19th century. What had in 1857 still been a simple rectangular building, had by 1890 become a U-shaped building with an enclosed courtyard. Within the context of the Open-Air Museum the two buildings are supposed to represent the lives of the most influential sections of society: the wealthy citizen who had a large number of vineyards at his disposal, and the craftsmen and gardeners. At the same time the bourgeois town house also contains objects associated with the Society of the Holy Cross (Szent Kereszt Társulat), one of the town's oldest religious fraternities (the fraternity cross, the guild jug, the silverbuttoned jacket etc.) This study provides an insight into the architectural history of the two buildings, as well the history of the buildings' ownership, together with an introduction to the sources which proved of vital importance to my colleague Dr. Friderika Bíró and I when acquiring the necessary furnishings to fill the houses. 141