Kolowrat brewhouse

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The brewhouse in Bad Ischl

The Kolowrat brewhouse in Bad Ischl was a saltworks built from 1826 to 1835 and operated until 1965 in the Upper Austrian Salzkammergut .

Since the demolition of the Metternich-Lobkowitz plant in Ebensee and the brewhouse in Hallstatt , the Kolowrat brewhouse in Bad Ischl has been the last remaining pancake house in the Upper Austrian Salzkammergut.

Building history

The brewhouse built in Ischl in 1571 was able to process the brine extracted from the Ischl salt mountain until the beginning of the 19th century . This fact was based on the brine yield, which fell far short of the cherished expectations, and the limited amount of wood in the surrounding forests made it impossible to operate a second pan. Only the excavation of the lower horizons in Pernecker salt mining and significantly higher efficiency of the proven double Tyrolean pan prompted the Court Chamber to establish a similar operation on the forth the Ebenseer Pfannhaus brewing in Ischl.

After the land was acquired in 1826, construction progressed only slowly; the shell was not completed until 1829. In 1831 the original building project was modified with a view to technical improvements to the brewing system. Finally, the new brewhouse, the so-called Tyrolean factory, was put into operation in 1833. Now it was possible to put the old pan in the cold and remove it. In the same year, under the direction of Ischl administrator Karl von Plentzner, work began on building a second brewery, a drying house and a salt store. This made it possible to create an overall disposition of the system that is advantageous for future operation. A trial brewing carried out in June 1835 after the second pan, the Kolowrat works, was completed, met the high expectations. In line with technical developments, the new production facility was continuously modernized, so in 1841 it was rebuilt and a new ladle furnace was installed in 1845. In 1847 the Viennese mechanic Fletscher supplied a brine pump, an elevator system and a hanging and a lying iron train to transport the Füderl to the warehouse and from there to the foreign place on the Traun . In place of the Tyrolean factory, the Franz Karl brewhouse was built in 1877, the pan of which was fired with lignite gas. During the renovation work in 1912, both pans were removed and replaced.

Finally, in the years 1951 to 1953, the pan wing was completely rebuilt, with the original north facade being retained. In 1954, production could be restarted on two new pans, but they were finally put out of action in 1965. As a result, the facilities of the brewhouse, which now serves as a commercial center, were dismantled.

Building description

The broad, two-storey structure, which encloses a narrow courtyard, rises above an almost square base. The center of the system is the pan tract, on whose central axis the two pans were connected to form a double pan. To the east, the former workshop area and the brine rooms are connected to the pan wing. The structural counterpart, which was originally also to the west of the pan wing, housed the salt store; it was demolished in 1967. The south-facing facade of the property, facing the Traun, reflects the structure of the components. Above the structure of the workshop wing sits a slim tower with a square cross-section, which is closed off by a curved helmet.

technical description

The walls of the property consist mostly of solid brick masonry, in the foundation and base area of ​​the core substance there is limestone block masonry. Since the beginning of the 20th century, concrete has increasingly been used for the heavily stressed components in the area of ​​the ladle . The original Dippelbaum ceilings were partially replaced by reinforced concrete ceilings, or those were added after 1965. Between 1951 and 1953 the original trench roof construction was replaced by hip roofs, which are covered with corrugated eternit.

literature

  • Hofkammerarchiv Vienna: Collection of plans, signature N - 22/2.
  • Rupert Birnbacher: The Austrian salt mining u. Brewhouses. In: Works newspaper of the Oesterreichische Salinen. 1st year, issue 1, 1928.
  • Rudolf Erich: The monuments of the salt pans in Austria. Dissertation TH Wien, Vienna 1972, volume 1, p. 111ff, plans volume 2, fig. 38 and 39.
  • Friedrich Idam: The Füderlstructur at the Austrian salt pans. In: Historicum. Journal of history. No. 52, 1997, p. 35 f.
  • Carl Schraml: Old brewhouses in the Salzkammergut. In: Heimatgaue . Journal for Upper Austrian history, regional and folklore. 9th year, Linz 1928, pp. 79–84, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  • Carl Schraml: The Upper Austrian saltworks from the beginning of the 16th to the middle of the 18th century. Vienna 1932, 194 ff.
  • Carl Schraml: The Upper Austrian saltworks from 1750 to the time after the French Wars. Vienna 1934, 162 ff.
  • Carl Schraml: The Upper Austrian saltworks from 1818 to the end of the salt office in 1850. Vienna 1936, p. 165 ff.
  • Carl Schraml: The salt pans of the Ostmark, their history and technical development. In: Potash related salts and petroleum. Journal for the potash, rock salt and oil industries as well as the saltworks. Volume 38, Issue 1, 1944, p. 5.
  • Friedrich Idam: http://www.idam.at/Startseite/downloads/

Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′ 40.7 ″  N , 13 ° 37 ′ 33.5 ″  E Brewhouse