Brickyard kiln kit

• Item no. 1550

This kit represents a Hoffmann ring oven from the Brick Factory Erbs. As in the original, the brick oven is perfectly represented with the side access to the inside of the oven. The construction is made of real wood. Delicate details such as stairs, rain gutters and downpipes are made of plastic. The imposing chimney serves today as a housing for storks after the production has been stopped. Kit

Size: approx. 195mm x 112mm, 74mm high
Chimney height: approx. 235mm

The brickworks
In the brick factory, building materials are made from fired clay. The location of these companies is usually at the site of the raw material occurrence. In the past, it was mostly small businesses that pre-dried the still damp bricks in the sun in the open air and then burned in an oven.

The Brick Farm Erbs
Today's technical monument Brickery Erbs was built in 1909 by Julius Erbs in Pegau, approx. 20 km from Leipzig. Production of bricks was commenced in 1911. Press house, dry shed and kiln are preserved in almost original condition. In 1980, the object was placed under monument protection and restored in 1992/93. Since 1994, the brickery has been publicly accessible as a technical monument.

Particularly impressive is the elongated ring furnace with several combustion chambers lined up together, in which a fire could be maintained independently that burned the dried brick blanks also in the chamber. After the burning process, the fire was allowed to extinguish in one chamber and fed the next chamber with fuel. As a result, the fire wandered around the oven once in about one to two weeks. Through inventive ventilation of the chambers, the fired bricks heated the supply air for the fire, which in turn allowed them to cool faster, while the hot exhaust gases dried and preheated the blanks. Opposite the heated chambers were the coolest chambers. Here the finished bricks were removed and the chamber was refilled.

With the Busch building models based on the model of brickery Erbs, an industrial facility or a brick museum can be perfectly designed. With the field track, the production processes from the transport of the clay to the brick factory can be faithfully represented in the large ring oven.
Type: Buildings

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