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Photo Gallery - zonal types

According with the scientific plan in 1956, peasant farmsteads representative for different ethnographic areas of Transylvania were going to be reconstituted in this sector. The peasant farmsteads transferred in the Ethnographical Park reflect the typology of the dwellings from the area they were found out, of the farmsteads, of the house and of the economical attached buildings. In present, there are represented the following ethnographical areas: Maramures, Oas, Nasaud, Transylvanian Plain, Zarand, Alba vineyard, Mocanimea of the Apuseni Mountains, Calatele Depression, Bran, Bistrita (Saxon), Szekler area and Gurghiu.

Zonal types of farmsteads and Monuments of Traditional Architecture

• Mărişel (Cluj)
• Almaş (Arad)
• Galda de Sus (Alba)
• Geaca (Cluj)
• Telciu (Bistriţa-Năsăud)
• Bedeciu (Cluj)
• Berbeşti (Maramureş)
• Cămârzana (Satu-Mare, zona Oaşului)
• Casin Imper (Harghita)
• Jelna (Bistriţa-Năsăud)
• Hodac (Mureş)
• Peştera (Braşov)
• Sălciua (Alba)

Farmstead from Marisel (Cluj County)

• specific to Mocanime of the Apuseni Mountains area
• farmstead with simple yard characteristic for dispersed dwellings where the main occupations were animal breeding and wood processing. It is made of:
  • house with mill (early XX th century), living room, pantry, front side verandah
  • oil mill and press
  • stable and monumental shed
  • fence of "razlogi" and "vramnita"

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Farmstead from Almas, (Arad County)

• specific to the Zarand Country ethnographical region (fruit growing area)
• farmstead with enclosed yard, characteristic for the in-line dwellings (organized through administrative arrangements)
• yard enclosed by the house and the attached buildings, for saving the plot
• house (dated 1882) with two living rooms, entrance hall and front side verandah
• heating system: blind stove with the hearth in the hall
• beds covered with "lepedeu"( bed with "corlan")
• "summer" kitchen, "colna", pantry
• "colna" for the marc tubes, "tuica" (traditional Romanian drink)
• shed with stable, pantry, pigsty
• oven for drying fruits in the orchard of the farmstead
• high gate, wheel well

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Farmstead from Galda de Sus (Alba County)

• end of XVIIIth century
• pecific to the ethnographical area Alba Vineyard (vine area)
• farmstead with simple yard, characteristic to dispersed dwellings
• house with two rooms, two pantries, three sides verandah and cellar. Inscription on the stone frame of the cellar: "RENOVATA ANNO 1778 PETRUS PREJA"
• bed with "corlan" in the clean room
• heat system: open hearth with "ploatan"
• bread oven in the hall
• shed with stable
• haystack "in furci" for keeping the fodder
• pantry , "colna" , pigsties
• wine press, dated 1826 in the vineyard; the bottom stone comes from a Roman Sarcophagus
• high gate with dovecot with the inscription: "ORO LABORO SPERO" "CURAVIT FIERI PETRUS PREJA ANNO DOMINI 1781 DIE 8 MAI"
• fence of "razlogi", dated 1880; hurdle and wooden fence
• draw well

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Farmstead from Geaca (Cluj County)

• second part of XIXth century
• characteristic to the Transylvanian Plain
• farmstead with simple yard, characteristic to dispersed dwellings
• house with living room, entrance hall and two sides verandah
• bread oven in hall
• open hearth with "ploatan" in the room
• shed for threshing
• characteristic to farming areas
• stable for animals
• pantry for farming products
• "potatoes hole"
• two pigsties
• "costei" (wattling) for storing corn
• draw well

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Farmstead from Telciu (Bistrita County)

• characteristic to Nasaud Country ethnographic area
• farmstead with simple yard
• house with living room, entrance hall, pantry and two sides verandah - (dated 1841)
• bread oven with hearth in the room
• traditional manner of making bench ("lavite pe butuci")
• "ruda" - complex arrangement of wool fabric on one side of the bed; "pots on the girder" - gifts from the Godsons
• shed with two stables and "colna" for means of transport
• oil mill
• haystack
• pigsties
• high gate and wooden fir-tree fence
• wheel well

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Farmstead from Bedeciu (Cluj County)

• beginning of XIXth century
• characteristic to Calata Depression area
• farmstead with simple yard, characteristic for dispersed dwellings
• house with living room, entrance hall and front side verandah, brought from a joinery center that made about 100 houses a year
• bread oven and "ploatan" with "babatie" that protects the roof against sparks
• shed with stable and "colnita"
• pantry - "colna", pigsties
• hen coop
• short gate and fence of "cepuri" (vertical wattle)
• draw well

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Farmstead from Berbesti (Maramures County)

• characteristic to Maramures area
• double yard farmstead (house yard, animal yard), dated 1795
• house with entrance hall, living room, pantry, front side verandah and apiary
• wood wall unplastered inside
• oven with "prichici"
• "lavite pe butuci"
• "ruda" on two sides of the bed ;
• pantry in the house yard
• wheel well
• high covered gate and wattle (house yard)
• "colna" for means of transport (house yard)
• shed with two stables (animal yard), dated 1896
• haystack with fixed roof (animal yard)
• haystack with mobile roof (animal yard)
• pigsty (animal yard)
• draw well, dated 1927 (animal yard)
• high gate (animal yard)

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Farmstead from Camarzana (Satu Mare County, Oas area)

• under organization
• house dated 1725
• farmstead with simple yard
• entrance hall, living room and pantry
• "colna"
• shed
• stable
• pigsty
• "costei" for storing corn

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Farmstead from Casin Imper (Harghita County)

• characteristic to Szeklers ethnographic area
• simple yard farmstead
• house with three rooms (the grandparents' room, the parents' room, the girl's corner), dated 1678
• open hearth "cu cujba"
• painted furniture
• shed with stable and haystack
• "summer" kitchen
• draw well
• high gate with dovecot, wooden fence

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Farmstead from Jelna (Bistrita-Nasaud County)

• house dated 1789
• farmstead with French yard, specific to the areas colonized by Saxons
• house with entrance hall, living room, pantry, two sides verandah
• shed with stable, "plevar" and "colna"
• pigsties
• wheel well

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Farmstead from Hodac (Mures County)

• under organization, beginning of XIXth century
• Gurghiu area
• simple yard farmstead
• house with entrance hall, living room, pantry and two sides verandah
• shed with stable
• wooden fence

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House with enclosed yard (Pestera, Brasov County, Bran area)

• house dated 1818
• construction characteristic to the dispersed mountain areas from Bran area
• house with three rooms (living room, entrance hall, "clean" room)
• painted furniture
• pantry, open hall, old people room

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"Hodaie" from Pestera (Brasov County)

• Bran ethnographic area
• annex to the house with yard - usually placed at large distance from it
• two rooms (for people and for animals)

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Sheepfold of Salciua (Alba County)

• Apuseni Mountains ethnographic area
• composed of a beam cottage (monocellular)
• "staul" for sheep and "cramba" (human shelter)

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