Country house and archaeological museum
Building, structure
Opening hours: ; Monday: day off ; Tuesday - Friday: 9-12, 13-16 ; ; Weekends and holidays: 00421 / 904 021 807 ; ; Contact: ; Svodín č. 305, 306, 943 54 Svodín ; Mobile: 00421 / 907 432 055 ; e-mail: edina.svajcer (at) gmail.com ; ;  , ; ; COUNTRY HOUSE ; ; It was set up in a former farmhouse, which seemed particularly suitable for this purpose with its huge farmyard and outbuildings. It was opened on October 14, 2005, as a branch of the János Thain Museum in Érsekújvár. We enter its courtyard through a slatted “beater”, which is part of a typical slatted fence. From here we enter the kitchen, where various pots are lined up on an open stove. ; ; There is a pantry next to the wall, and a “sporhelt” placed in the corner of the room. The furnishings are complemented by a stelázsi (“telázsi”) and a water bench, and the characteristic embroidered wall covering is not missing either. The window is decorated with a simple curtain sewn from cardboard. This room was primarily used for cooking, and perhaps other household chores were also done. The first room (first house, clean room) opens from the right, with its typical furnishings: two beds under the window, a table and four chairs, a mirror on the wall. A cast-iron stove in the corner, a low table with tablecloths over there, and a statue of Mary on it. There are pictures of saints on the walls, simple curtains on the windows, and homespun rag rugs on the floor. This room was used by some family members for sleeping, and for ceremonial occasions, but they also used it for weaving in the winter. To the left of the kitchen is the back room (hátsóház), where the hatched stove (“csíkósporhelt”) stands next to the door, and next to it is the wooden chest (“fássedány”). In the corner, under the window, is a corner bench, in front of it a table. Here too, there is a bed, next to it a sewing machine, and at the end a cupboard (“kasznyi”). An additional sleeping facility is the bunk, i.e. a low, homemade board bed, with a straw sack and a horse blanket. There is also a water bench next to the stove. On the walls are the indispensable icons, and the furnishings are completed with simple curtains, bedspreads and wall hangings. This room was the living room in the modern sense – in winter it was the permanent residence of the family (they also cooked here), but in summer it was more of a bedroom. From here we reach the pantry, which is furnished with: a flour chest (“szuszék”), glazed earthenware pots (“tótfazekak”), a “zírosbödony”, kitchen utensils, flour sacks, a table with a kneading bowl (the bread was also kept here). Kitchen utensils hang mostly on the walls – a cutting board, a cabbage slicer, an iron, a kneading board, and graters. The eaves (“falalja”), that is, the space covered with an extended roof, runs along the side of the house, from which you can access the living rooms and the stable. The stable is at the end of the house. The cows and horses were usually kept separately, but the stable here was shared. Here you can also see the tools of animal husbandry that were collected. The attic was built at the back wall of the stable, and behind it is the barn. It is a typical multifunctional building, which also served as a carriage house and a "chaff", among other things. Dried fibrous fodder, farm implements and tools were stored here, and in case of bad weather, the dirtier work was done here. At the end of the barn is the press house, and the cellar access led from the yard. The stacked oven is built between the stable and the barn, in which bread and other food were baked. The building opposite the house consists of two parts. In front is the summer kitchen, where cooking was done from spring to autumn, and family members stayed here during the day. The dirtier housework was also done here. The granary was located at the back, where the grain harvest was stored. In front of the summer kitchen door is the wheeled well, and next to the granary are brick-built sheds. In front is the “small shed”, in the middle is the chicken coop and the pig pen. Behind them is the pot shed, behind this is the toilet. Opposite it is the corn dryer, the “góré”. A gate opens from the back of the yard. ; ; ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM ; ; Between 1995 and 2001, archaeologists from the Slovak National Museum excavated the remains of the destroyed St. Michael’s Church and the even older church that stood on its site. Since interesting and instructive finds were found, the municipality of the village decided to present the results of these researches to the public in the form of an exhibition. ;
For this purpose, another building was purchased next to the country house. This is a one-story, rectangular house with a pillared corridor facing the courtyard. It consists of three rooms (front room, kitchen and back room), in which visitors can systematically view the results of archaeological research. An entrance opens from the outside into the middle room, which also serves as a kind of anteroom. The display cases here show various publications about Szőgyén. The room on the right houses the finds found at the St. Michael Church. It is likely that there was a smaller chapel and place of prayer on the site of this church during the reign of St. Stephen (1000–1038). It was later converted into a sanctuary, to which the nave was added in the 13th century. It was destroyed in 1685 by fleeing Turkish troops, and the new church was built in its place in 1731. As already mentioned, in 1945, the retreating German soldiers blew it up, and although most of it remained standing, it was not rebuilt. Instead, the ruins were demolished and the material was used to build the bus stop. During the archaeological research carried out here, 218 graves (32 of them children's graves) were excavated, in which coins, necklaces, silver pins and buttons, boot spurs and horseshoes from the 14th-17th centuries were found. Storage pits were found in the churchyard, in which food, drinks, and valuable objects were kept during the Turkish wars. A series of coins were also found around the church, the oldest dating from the reign of Marcus Aurelius (139–161), and the newer ones from the reign of Maria Theresa (1740–1780). Many necklaces, crosses, weapons, tools, ceramics and glass objects were also found, as well as silver, copper and semi-precious stone jewelry, the most interesting of which is a pocket sundial, which is also a compass. The finds unearthed during the excavation of the Church of the Virgin Mary in the Németszőgyéni part of the village were exhibited there. The archaeological excavation of this church showed that it was built in the 11th-12th century and was approx. 25 m long. The greatest width of its nave reached 11.5 meters. A 150 cm wide ditch and a 200 cm wide ditch on the western side of the church remain. In the western part of the nave, a 250 x 200 cm stone block was excavated, which was probably the base of the bell tower that belonged to the wooden chapel that stood here in front of the stone church. The church was permanently destroyed during the Turkish wars. Today, a statue of the Immaculate Virgin Mary stands on this site, which the locals call simply “the image of Mary”. 90 graves were excavated in the vicinity of the church, with many coins in them. One of them (damaged) dates back to the Roman Empire, the rest to the periods between the 13th century and the second half of the 18th century. Necklaces, crosses, haban knives and keys, as well as gold, silver and copper necklaces with garnet stones were found in three graves. The most valuable find is a Roman bronze crucifix (from a processional cross), with traces of gilding on it. The body has a crown on its head, and its left shoulder is broken off. All these finds can be seen in their original form or in photographs, and later life-like copies of the valuable jewels will also be made. Most cities in Slovakia cannot boast of such an exhibition. This is discussed in more detail in Zoltán Drenko’s book “Two Destroyed Churches in Szőgyénben”, published in 2005. As for the room on the left of the museum – which was the so-called back room of the former residential building – visitors can view documents depicting the lives of the Csongrády family and Sister Mária Nicefora Király from Szőgyén.
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