Cseri Miklós - Horváth Anita - Szabó Zsuzsanna (szerk.): Discover Rural Hungary!, Guide (Szentendre, Hungarian Open Air Museum, 2007)

X Kisalföld - X-2 Manorial Winepress Shed from Nyúl

X-2 Manorial winepress shed from Nyúl The large wine-press used to stand at the foot of Sokoró, on the fringes of the village Nyúl. In feudal times serfs were bound to pay the Church tithe in kind. The shed has boarded walls with a pitched tiled roof. The carved oak structure used for pressing the grapes has a beam fixed on one end with the screw operating as a one-armed lever On the beam of the press there are 3 sunken panels with painted inscriptions showing the dates 1699 and 1832, those of construction and renovation. The press is one of the earliest authentic relics of the technology of viticulture in the Carpathian Basin. It is still used during museum demonstrations in the autumn, when must can also be tasted by visitors. • Dates Inscriptions on objects became fashionable in bourgeois circles during the 1617th centuries. At first only the date was represented; later it was set in texts. The peasantry began dating objects in the 17th century with the spread of reading and writing. The dates appearing on gables, crossbeams and objects are a great help to researchers in determining chronology and periods of folklore and understanding ethnographical phenomena.