Nagymegyer Country House

The initiator of the development of the city country house was the Nagymegyer Organization of the Csemadok, after the high school students of Nagymegyer collected a significant number of ethnographic objects between 1978-80, and the then Municipal Local National Committee purchased the thatched building on Rózsa Street, which was built in 1836 according to the year found on the master beam: "István Nemes Lovas with his wife N. Mikolai Tóth Mária." The building was built with an axis parallel to the street, slightly set back from the street front inside the plot. The house, made of traditional natural materials, has a gable roof covered with reeds. The country house was decorated in the summer of 1980 by the participants of the local history camp organized in the city (high school students from Nagymegyer and Győr-Sopron County), teachers József Szabó, Gyula Bedécs and László Varga, and the specialists of the Győr János Xantus Museum, led by Judit Csere and Ibolya Bíró. The country house was opened on December 1, 1980, and its furnishings are a collection brought here from the place and the surrounding area, presenting the small peasant housing and object culture of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the tools of agriculture and local home industry. The building consists of four rooms arranged in a row. Entering the atrium from the courtyard, we reach the first room on the right, and the back room on the left. The fourth room, the pantry, opens from the courtyard with a separate entrance. Tools used in the household and agriculture were placed here. The front room is unheated, the kitchen has an open chimney, and in the back part there is the cauldron and the built-in stove. The tools for baking and cooking can also be found in the kitchen. Here is the baking shovel, the kneading bowl, the spit, the planer, the pepper mill, the carving basket, etc. There are colorful plates on the walls, and on the shelves we can find milk jugs, harvest jugs and other utensils and tools needed for cooking. The back room's stove is also connected here. The period furnishings of the rooms are gifts from local residents. The owner of the plot and the residential building on it is the Nagymegyer City Government, which had the 177-year-old building renovated in 2000. The exhibition inside is operated by the Nagymegyer City Cultural Center. The country house can be visited between May and September. ; ; &nbsp,