Kovács Zsuzsa: Göcsej Village Museum. Exhibition Guide (Zalaegerszeg, 2008)

The Village The buildings chosen to be parts of the collection were rebuilt here according to their earliest state so now they are in their original form. While most of the thatched loghouses had had a chimney added, in the village museum they stand as they were first built, that is without a chimney, and with a smoky kitchen. In all the houses - except the oldest one - there is a room beside the kitchen and a pantry; in the farmyard there are stables, hutches, wells and some more pantries. Cellars from the hill could not be left out, since until the end of the 19th century when filoxera pest destroyed most of the vines there, winemaking was really important in Zala county. In the reconstructed village apart from the houses and farm buildings the typical sacred buildings belonging to Zala villages can be seen: various belfries, a wooden church and crosses from the roadsides. View of Göcsej Village Museum in 1968 Göcsej in the 19th Century Göcsej region consists of 90 settlements in total with all the marshlands belonging to them in a hilly area enclosed by the river Zala and Kerka and Válicka brooks. The conquering Hungarians first appeared in this region in the 10th century. In the western border area of the present country lied the gyepű. The