Balázs György (szerk.): The abolition of serfdom and its impact on rural culture, Guide to the Exhibition Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Revolution and War if Independence of 1848-49 (Budapest-Szentendre, Museum of Hungarian Agriculture-Hungarian Open-Air Museum, 1998.)

Gyűjtemény (Scholarly Collection). It was there that the article of Nemesnépi Zakál, György about the region Őrség in Vas County was published in 1818; that of Szeder Fábián about the Palots, an ethnic group in Northern Hungary, in 1819; and that of Plánder, Ferenc about the region called Göcsej in 1832. The villages of the Great Plains seemed highly irregular in the early nineteenth century. Loose settlements were attached to villages with an irregular street structure. View of Visegrád Galgóczy, Károly described Tószeg in Pest-Pilis-SoltKiskun County as follows: „Formerly Tószeg was the most chaotic settlement of all in the whole county. There was a muddy marshland in the very middle of the village with water gangs in the plain soil dug by the rain. Houses lay scattered around the marsh, fenceless, with footpaths and roads around them. Pigsties and pens were either in the courtyards or further away, separated by fences. Stables and sheep-folds were situated either behind or in front of the dwelling-houses, separated by winding footpaths flanked with manure. Chimneys of stone were hardly to be found in the whole village." The situation was similar in the Jászkun region as well. The regulations of 1802 concerning the region scourged the existing conditions, and urged for the reorganization of set24