Zsámbék-Medence

According to 19th century data there were 388 domestic servants in Herceghalom. Their homes were placed in rectangular shape: four families lived in each of the eight apartments. Guards, tenant farmers and barn workers lived at the end of the row of houses. A communal kitchen was available to the families: there was one brick-laid fireplace in the four corners, and an oven in the middle, where bread was baked. Rooms opened from the communal kitchen and these rooms also had a fireplace. Two generations usually lived in the same room.

The steward lived in the part of the Quadrangle above the granary, his dwelling was the only house with a floor.
A well supplied families with drinking water in the courtyard, and there was another well outside the Quadrangle, which was used for washing.

The steward’s dwelling was later turned into the farm’s first office block and the others’ homes were converted to service housing. Electricity was introduced in 1954, water in 1968, and the other public utilities were only implemented after the political transformation.
Garages were erected in the middle of the courtyard in 1989, as there was no storage location for fuel and cars.
The inhabitants must have purchased the apartments in 1990–91.

Address: H-2053 Herceghalom,