1803 · 1848 Terraces, barns and cellarsTerasy, stodoly a pivnice

The church was renovated in 1803, and by then the villagers had reshaped the whole hillside around it. To farm a steep slope you have to stop the soil sliding off it, so household after household ploughed along the contour and heaped up the stones they picked out of the ground, until the slopes stood in level steps, one narrow strip to a family. Hay barns were built out among the fields and on the edge of the village, deliberately away from the houses — a timber village burns, and the grain store must not burn with it. The potato crop went underground into pear-shaped pits two and a half to three metres deep, where the limestone keeps them between two and six degrees all year. The revolution of 1848 made the villagers owners of those strips instead of tenants of the estate.Roku 1803 kostol obnovili a dedinčania dovtedy pretvorili celý svah okolo neho. Kto chce obrábať strmý svah, musí zastaviť pôdu, aby mu neušla dolu — a tak rodina za rodinou orala po vrstevnici a kopila kamene, ktoré z pôdy vyzbierala, až sa svahy postavili do rovných schodov, jeden úzky pásik na domácnosť. Stodoly stavali medzi poľami a na okraji obce, zámerne ďalej od domov: drevená dedina zhorí a zásoba obilia nesmie zhorieť s ňou. Zemiaky išli pod zem do hruškovitých jám hlbokých dva a pol až tri metre, kde ich vápenec drží po celý rok medzi dvoma a šiestimi stupňami. Revolúcia roku 1848 urobila z Tepličanov vlastníkov tých pásikov namiesto poddaných panstva.