Zsámbék-Medence

Some of the cellars in Tök are hollowed into loess, without any kind of built walls and vaults. In most cases the press house is attached to the cellar. There are two press house versions in Tök: one is a flattened building with an ascending wall, the interior of which was generally separated into rooms suited to hospitality and wine-drinking, the “small rooms”. Spacious, stone-vaulted rooms can be found in the other version, which are two or three times wider and much higher than the attached cellars. The vault made from carved stone was covered by a thick layer of soil. The semicircular or segmented closure gates, and not infrequently the facade, were also carved from stone. The grapes were and are still today processed on the lower level of the two-story structure, while grain used to be stored on the higher level, and drinking rooms have recently been developed there. This type of cellar, known in Tök as “cowhide”, is the Buda regional version of the press house cellars. Wherever such cellars are built closely to each other, their facades have been resolved with long, continuous retaining walls. One good example is the line of cellars above the Epidemics Hospital.

PRESS HOUSES, CELLARS

Address: H-2073 Tök, Kútvölgy tér 5

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