The Hungarian Road V3 · Sonnet

The Hungarian Road · Dukla and Jaśliska

The barrel that has to wait

Wine from Hungary entered the Crown through two gates: via Barwinek towards Dukla, or via the pass near Czeremcha towards Jaśliska. The same barrel was held up in each place under a different record of the staple right. For one town the material gives a number of days, for the other it does not.

Move the same barrel through four places ↓
Diagram of the fork in the Hungarian Road with a barrel of wine Illustrative diagram, not a map and not to scale. A barrel on the shared trunk of the road. The left branch, Dukla via Barwinek, ends in an open stopover bar, until sold, with no known number of days. The right branch, Jaśliska via Czeremcha, has a block made up of three weeks, that is 21 days.
Illustrative diagram, not a map and not to scale. The barrel is a symbol for the cargo. The Dukla bar deliberately has no scale and no end, because the material gives no number of days. Description in the text alongside.

Dukla · via Barwinek · 1588

until sold

Sigismund III Vasa granted Dukla the staple right for wine; merchants had to leave their goods in the town until sold. Number of days: not in the material. It should not be read as 0 or as 21. IT Dukla

Jaśliska · via Czeremcha · 1559

21 days

From 1559, merchants carrying Hungarian wine this way stored it for three weeks. Virtual Shtetl / POLIN

Main activity

The same barrel, four places

The register shows both branches side by side, so the difference can be seen without switching. With JavaScript enabled you can choose a place on the road and the purpose of the shipment; without it, the whole register is given below as text. What changes is the obligation, the stopover and what a statement rests on: a source, a V2 reading or a gap in the material.

Place on the road

Purpose of shipment

Dukla:

Jaśliska:

Dukla via Barwinek · staple of 1588

Stopover at this stage

    Jaśliska via Czeremcha · staple of 1559

    Stopover at this stage

      The whole register as text (no switching)

      For each place: the entry for sale on the spot, and after the words “Tavern sale” the difference when the purpose of the shipment changes the description. The abbreviations of the sources are expanded in the Sources section.

      PlaceDukla via BarwinekJaśliska via Czeremcha
      1 · Border pass Barwinek in the tradition of the wine trade Krosno–Dukla–Hungary (IT Dukla); the course of the cart roads is unknown. Stopover: not in the material. The pass near Czeremcha (“Beskid” in the description by the State Archives in Przemyśl); the Hungarian road runs this way. Stopover: not in the material.
      2 · Levy Customs house according to a study by the town office (reference carried over from V2); rates and procedure are not given. Tavern sale: the edict of 1589 names Dukla as a route for wine. Customs house, staple right and right to hold fairs (AP); town book 1611–1646. Tavern sale: the edict of 1589 also names Jaśliska.
      3 · Staple Privilege of 1588: goods stay in the town until sold. Number of days: not in the material. Tavern sale: the material does not settle how the staple related to the edict of 1589. From 1559, three weeks (21 days) of staple for wine carried this way. Tavern sale: the material does not describe any change to this stopover.
      4 · Market The town controls the place of sale; the stopover ends when the goods are sold, date unknown. Tavern sale: no information on whether unsold wine travelled on. Right to hold fairs (AP). What happened after 21 days (sale at a fair, onward journey towards Krosno) is a V2 reading to be verified.

      Explanation and limits

      What the stopover concerned and where the source falls silent

      The two records are 29 years apart (1559 and 1588), and the material does not say whether one influenced the other. Neither is a timetable or a real-time counter. They concern wine, not every cargo.

      The source material says

      • Jaśliska: from 1559, three weeks of staple for wine carried this way. Virtual Shtetl / POLIN
      • Dukla: in 1588 Sigismund III Vasa granted the staple right for wine; goods stay in the town until sold. IT Dukla
      • 1589: the levy edict names Dukla and Jaśliska as routes for carrying wine for tavern sale. IT Dukla
      • Jaśliska: customs house, staple right and right to hold fairs, town book from 1611–1646. AP Przemyśl

      V2 reading, to be verified

      • Cellars under the market square as the place of storage in both towns.
      • That after 21 days the wine from Jaśliska went to a fair or on towards Krosno.
      • That the 21 days did not depend on the number of barrels.

      Not in the material

      • The number of days of the stopover in Dukla. It should not be read as 0 or as 21.
      • Rates of duty and charges, and the procedure for exemptions.
      • The relationship between the privilege of 1588 and the edict of 1589.
      • Specific merchants, carts, quotations from the books. This page does not invent them.

      What was removed relative to V2, and why

      • The 1–30 barrels slider. No source in the material links the stopover to the number of barrels. The slider would only have inserted a number into a sentence, so it was removed rather than carried over.
      • Observation diary with local saving. It filled the interface and taught nothing about the road. Dropped. The page saves nothing in the browser.
      • “Carrier balance” cards (e.g. “Conflict of privileges”, “Admitted after 21 days”). They went beyond the sources. Replaced with tags: source, V2 reading, gap.
      • The “both routes compared” switch and the scrolling table. Replaced by a simultaneous comparison of both branches, and the table is plain text.
      • Photograph of the town hall loaded from an external server. Replaced by the page's own diagram. The link to the file is kept in the sources.
      • Content corrections. V2 wrote of the edict of 1589 as coming “a year later” for Jaśliska too (a record of 1559), and called the staple a “quarantine”. Both phrasings were removed. Also removed: undocumented lodging costs, the registration of each barrel in the customs book, and the attribution of Jaśliska stage 4 to the wrong source.

      Kept: the two branches, the four places on the road, the choice of purpose of shipment (sale or tavern sale), 21 days and “until sold”, the sources and the field warnings.

      Today, separate from the history

      See the places, do not retrace the cart road

      The old trade route is not a present-day trail. This page is not a navigation aid and does not clear anything for hiking.

      • BarwinekAccording to V2, today's road by the border (DK19) is busy and unsuitable for walking along the verge. Check the state of the road and a safe way to get there in current sources.
      • Market squares in Dukla and JaśliskaThe layout of the square can be seen from outside. Access to cellars and the consent of their managers have to be checked on the spot.
      • The pass near CzeremchaMountain and border terrain. Only legal, marked trails, with proper equipment and a current forecast. Border status to be checked.

      The field information comes from V2 and has not been verified here.

      Sources

      How we know this, and what was not checked

      The links were carried over from V2 unchanged. They were not opened while this version was being prepared, so the descriptions below are the scope declared in the material, not checked by the author of this version.