Meilerplatz

Meilerplatz on the Kohlenstraße in southeast Harz between Wippra and Grillenberg

Quandel (core) of a pile on a former pile

Plate with two kiln sites near Walpersdorf in Siegerland. In the foreground a kiln under construction, behind it one in operation. In the background a Hauberg for the extraction of the wood

A pile place also Köhler place , Meiler- carbon plate , Koehler plate , Koehler platform is the site of a coal kiln . Since the Meilerplatte only represents part of the Meilerplatz, the term Köhlerplatte is misleading.

Site conditions for a kiln site are access to water, to extinguish the coals, as well as a sheltered location in order to avoid uncontrolled burning of the kiln. It should also be close to the forest areas used.

There are three types:

A slope reactors is space usually a round, horizontal platform that artificially by Angraben the slope and embankment of the eroded soil material by the Köhler was created. The average width is 6 to 12 meters. A slope Meiler place can in principle Stübbewall be divided, kiln plate and Hangabstichkante. There are also places built in brick and in wooden scaffolding.

The square or ring kiln square can be at ground level, slightly rising towards the center or on a slight slope . It is then freed from wood, stones and roots and leveled. Should tar extraction be combined with the coaling of the kilns, small pits were dug in the ground or the ground was lined with clay and the tar was led out of the kiln through a canal. A surrounding parlor wall can then be created, but nowadays it is mostly without a wall. But it can also lie in a hollow in the ground.

Another possibility is the pedestal pile , which is built on a wooden pedestal to improve the draft. The platform is made of round wood laid out in a star shape , on which boards or round wood are then laid out.

Old kiln sites can be recognized by their shape, their sediment layer colored black by the wood tar and by bits of coal lying around. Most of the clearly visible kiln sites in the German low mountain range date from the 16th to the 19th century.

literature

• H. Hildebrandt, B. Heuser-Hildebrandt and M. Stumböck: Existing historical and cultural landscape genetic investigations in the natural forest reserve Stelzenbach. Nassau Forestry Office, Winden Revier, Mainz Natural Science Archive, Supplement 25, 83 pages, Mainz 2001, DNB 963501801 .
• Arne Paysen: Sustainable Energy Industry? Dissertation, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel 2009, pp. 96–118, online (PDF; 99.2 MB), on macau.uni-kiel.de, accessed on January 16, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kronprinzenwerk . (German), Volume 4, 1888, p. 335.
2. ↑ pedestal pile on kraeuterhuegel.at, accessed on 16 January 2017th