Documents of that time tell us that the Germans settled here built their first houses around the medieval church. The houses were made of mud bricks, and the builders made efforts only to form the most necessary spaces. Possibly shingling had been a general custom by then, for the area provided plenty of raw materials for it.

The so-called 'Titz-house' in the middle of the village (2 Kossuth Rd.), which preserved the oldest characteristics, was built at the turn point of the 18th and 19th century. However, looking at some of the houses built at the beginning of the 19th century, one can easily notice the differences in the taste of the new emigrant Germans. These steep-roofed houses have two wood boarded windows looking toward the street. Their arrangement is: room+kitchen+room, possibly a food store. Fences made of the flat stones mined in the area are typical.

From the 19th century onward bigger houses with long porches were built, the front walls of which were decorated in order to emphasise the window frames. In later years turned wood pillars substituted the connecting beams of the porch. The region house of Mecseknádasd - situated on the wonderful 'Vogelberg' - is one of these popular houses. A Gungl-like pub built in 1891 gives place for a permanent exhibition.

Mária L. Imre