Помещения за новобрачните от края на XIX и началото на XX в. в Пернишко
Rooms for Newly Married Couples in Pernik Region at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: The present communication provides new data on dwellings of the zadrouga (extended families) in the villages Velkovtsi, Rasnik, Begounovtsi, Priboi, Izvor, Zhedna and Ezdimirtsi, in the territory of Pernik district. The data were collected by the author in the summer of 1973. In the regions indicated beside the traditional house with its hearth there were also specially constructed little buildings which were used by each individual family belonging to the zadrouga only for sleeping. In Pernik district they are frequently to be found and many of them are well preserved. A characteristic feature of these buildings is that they have no hearth and are built independently, or under the same roof as the farm buildings. The local population calls them kosharcheta, roubni koschari or nevestarnitsi (bridal rooms). In the early 19th century, when the zadrouga was bigger, there were more houses in which individual married couples spent the night. At a later date, as the number of the members of the zadrouga diminished, the number of this type of building was also reduced. The tradition of building these little dwellings continued up to the '20s and '30s of our century.

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