Lime kilns (Stattegg)
The two lime kilns in the municipality of Stattegg in Styria were built towards the end of the 19th century and have been a listed building since 1981. They are the last remnants of a lime and gravel works that was closed in 1966. In the heyday of the plant, around 8,000 tons of lime were burned in the kilns per year.
location
The ovens are in the Stattegger district of Ursprung .
history
In 1890 the Graz entrepreneur Franz Jammernegg acquired the Stattegger Hof and built a lime and gravel works in its place. At least the left lime kiln was built this year. The work was a light railway with the siding of Maschinenfabrik Andritz connected. In 1920 a Francis turbine was installed in the Moosmühle belonging to the property to generate electricity. In 1926 a machine house with a diesel engine, a compressor for the rotary hammers and a direct current generator was built. In 1938 and 1939 both furnaces were removed. In 1943 the lime works was declared German property . The plant was idle between 1943 and 1948. In 1966 the lime works was finally shut down.
The lime kilns have been a listed building since 1981.
description
The lime kilns with a block-shaped structure are slightly tapered towards the top and consist of irregular ashlar and quarry stone masonry . The masonry was anchored at regular intervals using pull bars. The wall closures required for this are designed ornamentally on the stove on the left. On the wall surfaces there are openings for the round-arched fire and extraction openings .
The vaults for the openings are made of bricks. The inner shell of the core masonry is lined with artificially manufactured fireclay bricks . The ovens were increased in 1938/39 by using cylindrical chimneys made of bricks and enclosed with ring-shaped iron strips. These were originally plastered. The stove on the left has a sufficiently profiled cornice in the Wilhelminian style at the height of the top floor . The cornice of the stove on the right was made simple.
The bell bell , which is no longer preserved today, consisted of a filling funnel with a retractable cone closure. From the originally wooden hut building, only support niches for the beams in the rough masonry of the ovens remain.
swell
- Manfred Wehdorn, Ute Georgeacopol-Winischhofer, Paul W. Roth: Architectural monuments of technology and industry in Austria . 2, Styria and Carinthia. Böhlau Verlag Gesellschaft mbH and Co. KG, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-205-05202-1 , p. 102-103 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Coordinates: 47 ° 7 '48.9 " N , 15 ° 26' 4.5" E