Brine pan

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Original simmering pan (probably around 1775)
Salt pan, embedded in a brick stove and filled with brine, next to it baskets with salt that has already been extracted, open-air museum on Læsø , Denmark

A salt pan is a flat metal container that was used in pre-industrial times to extract table salt .

Brine was brought to the boil in the pan . The initially created “ brine foam ”, which contained poorly soluble impurities, was skimmed off with a spoon , a kind of skimmer . More and more water evaporated from the brine as it boiled, so that its salt concentration rose. When the so-called saturation concentration was reached , the salt finally began to precipitate from the brine . The salt that had sunk to the bottom of the pan was heaped with a shovel on the edge of the pan and then transferred ("knocked out") into a separate container. The salt pans were made of lead until the 18th century , later of iron . They had no handles or handles, but were handled with the help of so-called pan hooks. They were fired with wood or peat . The buildings in which the pans stood and were operated were called brewhouses, boiling houses or salt pans, and in the Austrian Salzkammergut they were also known as pancake houses .

After the boiling pan, the salt boilers , the operators (full owners, partners, leaseholders) of a salt boiling operation, were also referred to as pan . In the Middle Ages, the salt shelf was awarded to the Pfänerschaft, the cooperative of all salt boilers or Pfänner in a village with salt production .

  • The Saltzpan at Hallstätt (Merian, 1679)

  • Boiling house with 2 pans (drawing from 1821)

heraldry

In heraldry , the salt pan , or salt pan for short , is a seldom encountered common figure . It is rarer than other heraldic figures that symbolize the salt-boiling trade (including pan hooks and salt crystals ). Due to this low level of use, no heraldic form has emerged , i.e. no conventional, sometimes highly stylized representation of the salt pan (see for example → heraldic lily ).

  • Salt pan in the coat of arms of Salzderhelden

  • Coat of arms of Kołobrzeg (Kolberg), in the first field a boiling pan, in the second the pan hook

literature

  • Franz Ludwig Cancrin: The first reasons for mining and salt works. Volume 3, Andreean Buchhandlung, Frankfurt / Main 1789, p. 4.
  • Johann Georg Krünitz, Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Friedrich Jakob Floerke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth: Economic Encyclopedia or General System of the Land, House and State Economy. Volume 135, Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1824, p. 83.
  • Johann Christian Gotthard : Handbook of practical technology or Manufactur- factory and handicraft knowledge for state economists, manufacturers, manufacturers and craftsmen. Second volume. Gottfried Vollmer, Hamburg · Mainz 1805, p. 331 ff. ( MDZ reader ).