Paloznak Country House

Paloznak Country House

In the centre of the village there are many attractions, including the Paloznak Farmhouse, a traditional stone building with a thatched porch.


The Paloznak Tájház is a three-storey, thatched-roof, stone building with a porch in the centre of the village. The washroom was unusually spacious and obviously multifunctional. It is a traditional Balaton Highland farmhouse room with a corner layout, the heart of which is a green patterned stove with a pair of beads, heated from the kitchen outside. The furnishings are not painted hardwood furniture, but decorated with carvings, often with dates and inscriptions. Notable is the ornately carved door to the wall of the masonry built into the wall of the room. The furnishings are old-fashioned, reflecting the peasant way of life in an era when painted chests and homemade caskets were used to store clothing, rather than the mass-produced cupboards and sub-lots made by carpenters.

Some of the utensils are now bourgeois: the petrol lantern, the bug trap, the bedspread are reminiscent of the world of late 19th century factory products.

The central room of the house is the kitchen, which was probably fitted with free chemistry when the house was rebuilt in 1888. The smoke from the large wood-burning stove, typical of the Balaton highlands, was exhausted through the horn at the top, but it was still very much in the air when the room was heated. The picture and the furnishings of the kitchen show the traditional era before the appearance of the factory iron kettles.

The chamber was used to store tools for pig slaughtering, bread baking, washing and ironing, and small household items from goose stuffing, butter churns and mortars for crushing lime to petroleum jars. It was also the place for the most important foodstuffs and ingredients. Tools that were not traditionally stored in a pantry (but in a barn or fisherman's hut), but were typical of the local way of life, are on display. Thus, in addition to the tools used for farming and animal husbandry (e.g. the wooden fork, the hay cutter), there are also some tools used for winter and summer fishing in Balaton: the harpoon, the gemics, the pole-axe, the crow and the ice horseshoe.

The cellar at the house is not really a wine cellar, as every family had its own press cellar on the vineyard, especially the wealthier ones. Of course, a small barrel or two of wine could also fit in the small courtyard cellar. Here you can see the small tools and implements used in vine-growing and winemaking: hoes, planting irons, pruning knives, shears, sprayers, charcoal stirrers, small presses, vats, etc.

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