Cseh Valentin szerk.: „70 éve alakult a MAORT” – tanulmányok egy bányavállalat történetéből (2009)
Zsuzsa Kovács: The Oil Age and Its Impact on Everyday Village Life In Zala County's Settlements
There was, on the other hand, a doctor's office, dental care, a pharmacy, plus a kindergarten and a day-care centre in addition to the school. : * The two classroom school was enlarged to 6 classrooms in 1967, where 17 teachers and primary school tutors taught 320 pupils. Of the faculty, several held bachelor's degrees. Because of the many school-aged children, the school proved incapacious even so, therefore teaching had to be broken into morning and afternoon sessions. They did not intend to maintain this system over the long run, so the further enlargement of the school constantly remained on the agenda, and the Crude Oil Company offered a grant of HUF 260,000 for this purpose. 2 9 Starting from the 1960s, the company began to participate in the life of the village more and more, providing ever larger grants to the construction and repair of various facilities or supported the village by means of the assets that were available to it. During major blizzards, for example, roads were cleared using the company's snow-ploughs, bread was delivered with its all-terrain vehicle from Nagylengyel at other times. Later it assisted the settlement with ever greater material contributions, for example supporting the renovation of the teachers' quarters, while in 1963 a contributed 3 million Forints for the construction of the sports field and its buildings. 280 House building fever among the villagers At the level of individuals, supporting home construction for employees by means of interestfree loans meant the greatest help coming from the company, owing to which numerous 'BSH-houses' were built. In addition to loans from the company, OTP bank loans also became available to the public at large from the 1960s, thus new cube houses with more rooms and bathrooms were built one after the other along the main street. 281 Due to the wide availability of C )TP loans, a major home-building wave started all over the country in the 1960s, which showed dynamic growth all the way until the 1990s. 282 Those building new houses did away with every aspect of regional architecture's characteristics. It was not long before the uniformity creating impact of cube houses constructed in large numbers started to dominate the way streets appeared. The presence of typified architecture is nothing new in Hungary's towns and villages. Suffice it to think about the FAKSZ, then ONCSA-houses that were built in the 1920s 28 ' or the engineers' and workers' homes completed in Lovászi and Bázakerettye in our county between the world wars. As opposed to cube houses, the designers of earlier typical buildings took the respective region's architectural tradition into consideration. These styles actually appeared in the external features of the houses, and to some extent in the houses' internal structure as well. Many times these buildings did differ too much in shape from peasant's houses characteristic of a given region. 284 See for example the ONCSA-houses in Zalaegerszeg, whose appearance, structure, and ornate frontispiece takes after the long-houses in the Göcsej. : 8 /.MI, Gellénháza Village Council Executive Committee minutes of meeting, May 2, 1967. : 1 /.Ml. Gellénháza Village Council Executive Committee minutes of meeting, September 8, 196)7. :! " ZML Gellénháza Village Council Executive Committee minutes of meeting, September 29, 1963. ZML Gellénháza Village Council Executive Committee minutes of meeting, |une 21, 1962. 32 VALUCH 2001,294, SARI 2003,20. ** BALASSA M 2002,164.
