Cseri Miklós, Füzes Endre (szerk.): Ház és ember, A Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum évkönyve 12. (Szentendre, Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, 1998)

H. CSUKÁS GYÖRGYI: Balatoncsicsó épületei a 18. század közepén (Forráselemzés)

a second room to a log house or to a house with twined wattle walls. At that time, there was only one building made completely of stone. A great diversity is characteristic for the interior division of the houses: we find numerous varieties, from the one-room smoky house to the house with two dwelling rooms and two kitchens. There are houses without pantry or stable, which was going to be the typical house type in the vine-growing area of the Balaton-Uplands in later times. Smoky houses without separate dwelling room are still existing, representing an archaic form. Not one chimney in the village is mentioned by the sources. The descriptions inform rather on the process of disappearing of smoky houses and of the generally spreading use of dwelling room with oven and houses with smoky kitchen. Balatoncsicsó seems to be more backward in this respect than other gentry's villages in the region where in the middle of the 18th century houses with chimney and cellar are not unknown. It is surprising at the same time, how widespread are houses with two dwelling rooms. Unfortunately, our sources do not provide data on vineyards, in spite of the fact that viniculture played an important role in the economy of the village. As in the case of Balatoncsicsó continuity is presumable during the Turkish rule, we can assume that some of the houses registered in 1754 had been built in the preceding century. This is how they link the material known from archaeological findings of the late Middle Ages and the survived material. Furthermore, the registration produces evidence that the appearance of stone buildings is related to the immigration of German settlers. Stone buildings became, however, more and more widespread after the change of the inhabitants because of the fast population increase.