Box oven

Box oven made of sheet iron in the Aflenz Provostry

A box oven , more rarely also referred to as a plate oven , is a box-shaped oven made of cast iron plates or oven plates . The fire opening mostly on the back also led to the designation rear loading furnace . In contrast to sheet iron, which permanently decomposes in direct fire (and then has to be replaced), cast iron withstands direct firing much longer. With the increasing development of the iron foundry after the emergence of efficient blast furnaces , the development of cast iron box furnaces for heating rooms, which were assembled from individual cast iron plates, began at the end of the 15th century.

literature

• Karl Heinz von den Driesch: Handbook of the stove, fireplace and Taken plates in the Rhineland (= work and living. Folklore studies in the Rhineland, Volume 17), Cologne 1990