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

Kemecsi Lajos: Szánok a Gerecsében

PALÁDI-KOVÁCS Attila 2003b Szánfélék és szánrészek nevei. In: Szekerek, szánok, fogatok a Kárpát-medencében. 197-209. Szentendre. PETERCSÁK Tivadar 1981 Az erdő szerepe a Zempléni-hegyvidék népének életében. In: Néprajzi tanulmányok a Zempléni hegyvidékről (Szerk.: Szabadfalvi József) 43-61. Miskolc. 1992 Az erdő az Északi-középhegység paraszti gazdálkodásában. Debrecen. PETTKÓ-SZANDTNER Tibor 1931 A magyar kocsizás. Budapest. REPKÉNY István 1992 Szekerezés, kocsizás, szánkózás. Kecskemét. SZEKERES Gyula 1987 Kerékgyártómesterség Hajdúböszörményben. 5-87. Debrecen. VAJKAI Aurél 1959 Szentgál. Egy bakonyi falu néprajza. Budapest. Lajos Kemecsi Sledges in the Gerecse The importance of woodland is a topic to which Tivadar Petercsák has frequently turned his attention during his career. The present study, which ties up with his interest in northern Hungary, attempts to provide a brief account of the ethnography of sledges. In northern Transdanubia the light sledge is the most widespread means of transporting cut timber. Likewise the hand-sledge is also a smaller version of the draught-sledge. Indeed, the names of the relevant parts of the sledge correspond completely in both types. During the winter period the horse-drawn sledge was the most important means of transporting both materials and people. In most of the villages in the Gerecse the horse-drawn sledge was and continues to be the only type in use. The sledges used in the Gerecse differed, however, in being more robust in size combined with a difference in the appearance of some of its constituent parts. While the names used to describe the different parts of the sledge were more or less uniform throughout the region, the lengths and design of the runners varied somewhat. In the Gerecse the sledge used exclusively for human transportation so widepread in the western parts of the country was not generally found. The design of the traditional horse-drawn sledge has remained almost unchanged to the present day. The only adaptation that has 96