Forrás ok a pozsonyi várkút építésének történetéhez

Abstract The epochal study on the construction of the Pozsony (today: Bratislava) castle was published by Jenő Szűcs in 1958. He reconstructed the works and the organization of the work on the basis of the accounts book of the construction he had found and dated to 1434 with convincing arguments. The construction presumably began under the supervision of chief Pozsony administrators István and György Rozgonyi in the early 1420s. The “building office” was headed by the master builder Kunz Schwarz, a citizen of Pozsony, from 1423 to an unknown date. Later he was replaced by a certain Reichard (1429). During the period studied by Jenő Szűcs the complex chores were shared: the leader of the construction was János Berényi Kakas, while the chief master builder was Konrád of Erling. The present paper provides clues from so-far unknown sources as to the exact date (summer 1434) and manner of the construction of the fountain built in the newly constructed Pozsony castle. All the letters in the Appendix were written about the building of the fountain. Two of King and Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund's letters reveal that the construction was financed from the estate of the late Moravian knight Peter Kutej who died in Pozsony captivity. Sigismund's third letter contains particularly important information on the technical details of the construction. The fourth letter by the warden of the Tata castle of the Rozgonyi family inquires from his masters whether he would get the amount to be spent on the Tata castle from the resources set aside for the fountain.