Füred és vendégei. Egy fürdőhely és „társadalma” az 1840–1860-as években
Füred and its guests. A bathing resort and its “society” between the 1840s and 1860s

Summary/Abstract: Balatonfüred was one of the best-known and most frequented Hungarian bathing resorts during the entire 19th century. Numerous narrative sources inform on the everyday life and the way of living of its guests, but the most telling sources on the society of bathing guests are the bathing lists. A comparison of data from the 1840s and 1860s makes it evident that changes occurring in the overall society are traceable among the lines of bathers as well: Füred was increasingly becoming the resort of the middle classes. However, the 1860s are highly important in the history of the resort from other aspects as well: the development of the middle class bathing resort begins, the transport improves through the railway, bathing guests from distant regions increasingly frequent Füred, consequently the resort gradually loses its regional character that was still strongly present in the Reform Age. By the analysis of the 1840s and 1860s one might risk the statement that contrary to established commonplaces, the true golden age of the resort was in the 1860s and 1870s.

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