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

Bárth János: Kapuközösségek Csíkszentgyörgyön

Csíkszentgyörgy and Csflcbánkfalva (Bancu, Romania), we know that the fence came into being when those families responsible for the "bottom of the gardens", the outer extents of the plots of land making up the inner part of the village, had to put up their own stretches of fence, as well as regularly improve and maintain them. The fences were only broken by incoming and outgoing streams and roads. Where roads cut through the fence the villagers responsible for that stretch would have to both build and maintain a gate. From the study it becomes apparent that in 1839 the four gates had to be looked after. This was done by dividing the population into four groups, according to where people's houses happened to be situated, and ensuring that each group was made responsible for the care and maintenance of one of the gates. It was the inherent fairness of the arrangement that explains why the 1839 decision regarding the gates and the gate associations needed to be made in the first place. 162