The revolution of 1848 abolished serfdom in the Kingdom of Hungary. In a town like Holíč, where almost everyone's work was tied one way or another to a single great estate, that changed the basic arrangement of life: villagers stopped owing labour days to the lord and became owners of the strips they farmed. The estate itself stayed in Habsburg family hands, but it was now a business with employees rather than a lordship with subjects. The faience works had already closed in 1836, so the nineteenth century here is mostly agricultural — grain, the model farm and the windmill.Revolúcia roku 1848 zrušila v Uhorsku poddanstvo. V meste ako Holíč, kde bola práca takmer každého tak či onak zviazaná s jedným veľkým panstvom, to zmenilo základné usporiadanie života: dedinčania prestali panstvu dlhovať robotné dni a stali sa vlastníkmi dielov, ktoré obrábali. Samotné panstvo zostalo v rukách habsburskej rodiny, no bol z neho podnik so zamestnancami, nie panstvo s poddanými. Manufaktúra na fajansu skončila už v roku 1836, takže devätnáste storočie je tu prevažne poľnohospodárske — obilie, vzorový majer a veterný mlyn.
