Thursday, April 3, 2014

In 1886, a brick factory already had its own stone building, the steam engine in the eight horsepow

How to build a Grodno. Brick and kaflyarni city - Blog Grodno s13
Admiring the monuments of our city - beautiful churches and churches, palaces and public buildings - we seldom realize just how difficult and time consuming task was one or two hundred years ago to make all the necessary materials for their construction.
Construction materials although lay underfoot, but I had to treat them accordingly and deliver it to the construction site. So now we will focus on building enterprises of Grodno. professionail Great stuff prepared site harodnia.com.
All necessary materials Grodno quarried near the city. So it was, for example, with lime, which was once the most important modern cement replacement. Almost everyone knows about grodnenets Chalk Mountains near Donuts. Now it's wooded hills on the banks of the Niemen, and even in the middle of the XIX century there seething life. Wonderful historian Zygmunt Gloger left us a valuable record of these places in the 1870s: "Then we came to the chalk mine, which was called MIOL or Melavets (from the word chalk). This chalky hill, previously formed river valley in which many fought his straight path. Lime deposits ascend a few yards above the water level on the right bank and it is here on the slope of the hill is a large mine in the form of snow-white basin, busy work of a few dozen people perepletsenaya picturesque forest green frames and thickets. Workers professionail broke white wet stony ground overtighten snow boulders on the shore of the Neman, which put them in rows of lime which after drying is loaded onto vessels or vases. Near the coastal mine we met the boat loaded with several hundred court of lime, which had to sail on August Neman channel in August. "
Looks like it looked and brick. I only had to look as close as possible to the planned construction site of deposits of clay and could open a brickyard. First brick looked very simple. Built brick kiln and several sites for its drying professionail (often under some simple cover yourself). These seemingly subtle enterprises professionail provided the city with thousands of bricks, especially necessary for construction of large monasteries and churches. That is why the Jesuits professionail Grodno, Bernardine and brygidki owned their own brick and Uniate Metropolitan had as many as four.
Brick manufacturing technology has changed little even in the XIX century. Brick remained fairly expensive building material and in the early 80-ies of the XIX century, the majority of homes built of wood Grodno. Tight wooden buildings streets was very dangerous in terms of fire. The last big fire in Grodno in the summer of 1885. Then literally half burned buildings in the city over the Niemen. It was necessary to rebuild professionail the city! In addition, the Russian government also banned the construction of wooden houses on the main streets of provincial towns. That's when it's the most famous brick Stanislavova Grodno.
Small brick factory existed on the lands of the former royal residence Stanislavova since at least 1820, but it is possible that it was founded in the days of Anthony Tyzengauz. Flourishing as it is associated with gender-Drutsk Lubezki, who were masters Stanislav professionail from 1814 to 1939 Tsagelnya enjoyed rich deposits of clay in the triangle modern streets Dubko - Dzerzhinsky - Pushkin. Local clay had a characteristic yellow color, so it is made of brick was with same yellow tinge.
In 1886, a brick factory already had its own stone building, the steam engine in the eight horsepower. Factory produced about 100,000 bricks annually, and since the beginning of the XX century - as clay tiles and pipes, concrete stairs, decorated with mosaics and many other useful construction materials. Specificity of the work related to mining clay allowed to work only in the summer for 125 - 140 days per year.
Brick making was very tricky and took place in several stages. First of all it was necessary to prepare the clay, which is passed through a special professionail glinamyalku that it is full of oxygen and become more suitable for processing. After the master laid a piece of clay into shape, shot from above the excess clay, turned the form on the table ... and was lying rovnenko beautiful brick. Master for 12 - 14 hours could make even a thousand bricks.
Next bricks dried in the open air for about two weeks and only after that there was a process abpalki. Bricks were formed in the oven, or formed into a pyramid, parallel prakladayuchysya firewood, all abmazvalasya clay and padpalvalasya. Firing bricks lasted about five days. All this time the workers were on duty near the oven, making sure that the brick warmed professionail to almost white. After the fire went out, you had to wait another professionail 5 - 7 days to cool brick. Thus making one batch of bricks lasted almost a month.
Gradually Drutsk-Lyubetsky the vast their possessions created a network of brick factories.

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