Exhibition Shows Half-Timbered Buildings in Hungary

English

The photographs, taken over several decades by Anna Dobosy, who works at the Office for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (KÖH), shows houses built by Germans who were invited by the Habsburgs to settle in regions of Hungary depopulated after the Ottomans were expelled.

 
There are at least 90 half-timbered houses in the former "Swabian Turkey" regions, all built in the 18th and 19th centuries.
 
Dobosy published her research on the buildings in a Hungarian language book entitled Half-Timbering in the Areas of Swabian Turkey last year.
 
The exhibition will be open until December 13.
 
Source: Múlt-kor