Clay oven
A clay oven is usually a basic oven that is essentially made of clay . In addition to clay bricks , clay mortar and clay plaster, a variety of other materials can be used as building material, such as firebricks , bricks or roof tiles . The intended use is just as diverse as the building materials.
Heating the living space
A clay stove is often used to heat the living space. Some of the flue gas ducts can be designed as furnace banks.
Clay kiln
The clay oven is a kiln made of clay or grass loam . Clay , silt and sand are mixed with water to make the mixture malleable. When dried, clay is stable and insulating and can preserve a temperature of 1000 ° C in the oven .
The clay kiln is used to produce ceramics and can be set up in a horizontal or vertical position. It is at least three times as long as it is wide, so that the pottery and the wood , which is used as fuel, have sufficient space between them.
history
Orders from Count Palatine Karl IV. From 1772 also served to prevent a fire in connection with domestic fireplaces. According to the simultaneous building regulations, no more wooden chimneys were allowed to be erected, no more wooden hoses were allowed to be installed, which had to lead the smoke from the fireplace to the fireplace , just as it was forbidden to lead stovepipes out of the window.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Franz-Josef Sehr : The fire extinguishing system in Obertiefenbach from earlier times . In: Yearbook for the Limburg-Weilburg district 1994 . The district committee of the Limburg-Weilburg district, Limburg-Weilburg 1993, p. 151-153 .