Agria 43. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2007)
Bánkiné Molnár Erzsébet: Nemes közbirtokosok erdőírtásai a XIX. század elején, a Kővár-vidéken
TRÓCSÁNYI Zsolt 1958 Teleki Imre és hosszufalvi jobbágyai erdőlési szerződése (1817). In: Néprajzi Közlemények, III. évf. 1-2. sz. 307-312. 1966 Az Északi Partium 1820-ban. A Conscriptio Czirakyana adatai. Budapest. Mrs Erzsébet Molnár Bánki Wood Clearance at Aristocratic Joint Tenantries at the Beginning of the 19th Century in the Kővár Region The Kővár Region was situated in the northeastern part of historical Hungary. Enjoying special rights it belonged to the Partium, and for this reason, with the exception of a short break lasting from 1693 to 1733, the region belonged to the Principality of Transylvania. In 1615 the Transylvanian diet declared it a fiscal lordship. Although the administrative area began to resemble that of a county during the 18 th century, it was only with the passing of decrees 1876:33. tc. that it became part of Hungary's county system. It was then that some of the villages in the Kővár Region became part of Szatmár County while others went to SzolnokDoboka. The region's most important landowner from the end of the 17th century was the Teleki family. Local single plot-holders in the Kővár Region had already had to come terms with the seizure of the common land at the beginning of the 17 th century. This occurred when an increase in the number of family members capable of overseeing farming operations among the local landowning elite prompted the creation of additional agricultural land through wood clearance. Such woodland clearance invariably took place on common land (woodland, meadows, pastures) which had belonged to the villages since time immemorial. In the 18th century, however, the Teleki family considered the woodland theirs with the result that ever more conflicts arose between the single plot-holders and the local population.The seizures by the aristocratic joint tenantries spared neither the common lands, peasant holdings nor the fiscal, that is the Teleki, woodland. With this 18 th century case study we would like to acknowledge the contributions made by Tivadar Petercsák, that great scholar of joint tenantries. 51
