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

Cs. Schwalm Edit: Az egri „melegvíz”

FEJES Mihály 1839 Az egri fürdők orvosi, s helyleírási tekintetben. Eger. KAPCZÁR Róza 1978 A víz szerepe a paraszti háztartásban és a faluközösség szokásaiban. In.: Bakó Ferenc (szerk.) Mátraderecske. 61-72. Eger. SUGÁR István 1965 Az egri melegvizű fürdők története I. (1448-1790). Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve III. 119-142. 1966 Az egri melegvizű fürdők története II. (1791-1965). Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve IV. 168-187. 1985 Az egri bulyavászon. Agria XXI. 215-223. TANNER József 1961 Egerszalók. Budapest. ZÁKONYI Ferenc 1980 Mosóházak a Balaton környékén. Műemlékvédelem XXIV. 4. 235-237. Edit Cs. Schwalm Eger's "Hot Water" Even in the 1950s people would refer to the "hot water" in Eger. What they had in mind were the hot water springs where people could wash their clothes next to the outdoor bathing complex. The history of the hot waters goes back several hundred years, to 1695, when bishop György Fenessy had his seigniorial rights to the town set down in writing, at which time he was keen to ensure that the hot water springs came under his ownership. The people of Eger were left only with the right to wash their clothes in the open air. A few decades later the residents even had to pay for the right to do so, something we know from the letter of complaint submitted by the town to Joseph II in 1786. It was Archbishop Pyrker who appointed Eger's first balneological physician, Mihály Fejes. His first task in 1839 was to raise local awareness of the medicinal waters and to outline any implications for tourism within the format of ninetypage document, written in both Hungarian and German. In the chapter devoted to the springs Fejes writes:"the thermal waters come up to the earth's surface in three places, not far distant from one another." One learns also that each spring was accompanied by a small lake, each of which was used for the washing of clothes. 444