Brickyard Erbs
The Erbs brickworks in Pegau is a technical monument that is used as a museum. It serves schools as a destination for hiking days and is used by these and other educational institutions for project days. The brick factory is a listed building and is attached to the Museum Pegau .
description
With the preserved, cautiously restored technical systems and equipment, it can be demonstrated how masonry bricks were made in the first half of the 20th century . The Erbs brickworks was one of the small, technically backward companies - one reason why the early phase of industrial brick production can be shown in the technical monument today. This also includes the pre-industrial hand - painting process .
The brick factory is located on a 3680 m² area at the confluence of the B 176 and the B 2 . The property is owned by the city of Pegau, and it is managed by the city's museum and the Verein für Heimatkunde zu Pegau e. V. operated.
Storks have been nesting on the kiln chimney every year since 1988.
Technical specifications
The technical monument includes in the field of raw material extraction: excavators , pit locomotives , tipping lorries , track systems and from the field of brick production: press house (original transmission drive with electric motor from the founding time) with horizontal feeder, extrusion press with mechanical cutter, drying shed (for air drying the raw bricks), transport trolley elongated (so-called oblong) Hoffmann ring furnace , cart, conveyor belt .
history
In 1907, Julius Erbs applied for a business license to build and operate a brick factory on the property he owned on Audigaster Strasse. Construction began in 1909 and in 1911 the first bricks (solid bricks) were burned. The capacity was 2.5 million bricks a year. The workforce was an average of ten workers. The work was done in seasonal operation (so-called campaign). In the Pegau area there were 12 brickworks in the first third of the 20th century.
The Erbs brickworks stopped production in the mid-1970s due to the illness of Walter Zobel's son-in-law, who last pressed clay bricks for stove builders in the "one-man operation" .
The disused brick factory was placed under monument protection in 1980. Securing work was then carried out around the mid-1980s (removal of the chimney at risk of collapse by a third of its height), the fencing of the company premises and the recovery of technical objects (light rail system and excavator). After the political change, the city of Pegau acquired the property with the brickworks on it. In 1992 the extensive restoration of the buildings began with funds from the preservation of monuments of the State of Saxony , which was completed in 1993. The Erbs brickworks was opened to the public for the first time on Open Monument Day in 1994.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 9.3 ″ N , 12 ° 16 ′ 15.7 ″ E