Water ship (vessel)

Brick wood fire, on the right the water ship

Doll stove, in the front center the water ship made of copper with a tap

A water ship , also known for short as Schiff , Wasserschaff or dialectly Scheff (Oberdt. Schaff = vat) or Grand (l), called Wassergrand , describes the metal vessel that is inserted or attached to a stove or oven from above or on the front for heating water by the heat of the stove fire.

description

In the German dictionary of the Brothers Grimm it is described as a “bubble-like metal vessel inserted into the room oven or its fire wall”, which is used in this term “in western and southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland”. The watercraft, usually made of copper or brass sheet , normally protrudes into a part of the furnace that is not directly reached by the flames. Only the moderately hot smoke gases should heat the water, but not bring it to a boil. The vessel holds ten to twenty liters of water and protrudes up to 15 cm from the oven forwards or upwards. Its contents are protected by a lid, which can either be removed or folded up on a hinge so that water can be easily removed or refilled. The ship can protrude directly into the flame room or it can be pushed into a walled niche. In the case of a table-only stove, the ship can be let into the stove top from above.

Some water ships have a water tap that is soldered in , which makes it easier to draw water . Often there are water ships in the higher, heat-storing superstructures of stoves or tiled stoves . Warm water is only available later, but for a longer time. The front of a ship can be double-walled to reduce the heat dissipation to the outside; if the front is polished to a glossy finish, this reduces the heat dissipation through radiation. Narrow, high tiled stoves for heating living spaces in urban bourgeois apartments in Vienna and Linz often have a 20 cm wide and up to 30 cm high passage at shoulder height, which could be used to keep drinks warm or to accommodate a watercraft.

use

Water ships are mainly used where there are no alternatives for heating drinking and industrial water. Especially in rural (alpine) areas, water ships are an everyday object. For example, due to the need for permanent heating in alpine huts, water ships are the simplest and often the only way to have permanent hot water available without permanently adjusting the stove with water pots.

See also

Boiler stove

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Latin language relics in the Bavarian dialect or how far did the Romans really get with their Latin? Retrieved April 27, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Furnace bubble. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 13 : N, O, P, Q - (VII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1889, Sp. 1158 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
3. ↑ water ship. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 27 : W – way [twittering] -zwiesel - (XIII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1922, Sp. 2496 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
4. ↑ thomas-scharnowski.de ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.