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- Title
UN PLAN AL DEPOZITULUI DE SARE DIN ARAD ÎN 1774.
- Authors
Magina, Livia
- Abstract
A nourishment unfailing ingredient and an important component of an estate economy due to the extractive industry, salt has a particular story. The salt cutting inside the mine, its storing, transport, and delivering are the constitutive parts of a distinct draw. The present article through the annexed document highlights a less visible aspect concerning the salt ore: the intermediate storehouses. Such a place was the town of Arad in the 18th century, as a salt storehouse and delivering milieu within the route toward Szeged, on the Mureş flow. The storehouse plan with an external description and a brief internal one for each of the buildings there was made in 1774 and signed by the two storehouse officials, distractor salis and contralor ponderator. Plans were probably made by a connoisseur and they present the buildings belonging to the storehouse under three hypostases: longitudinal (horizontal) section, cross section and a frontal view. The courtyard is divided among its lodgers as following: the officials and the guards, and the main storehouse. The units for length and weight are those of the time. The two dwelling-buildings, one for the officials, with a storey, and the more modest other one for guards, are supplemented by stables, distinct courtyards and kitchen gardens, and these mean that the whole staff of the office was a permanent resident there. We may consider that the present article and especially its annex would be useful both in the salt transport and delivering system researching and the urban life in the 18th century studying.
- Subjects
SALT mining; DWELLINGS -- History; URBAN life; WAREHOUSES; COURTYARDS
- Publication
Banatica, 2012, Issue 22, p197
- ISSN
1222-0612
- Publication type
Article