Brick kiln Ziersdorf VII

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The brick kiln Ziersdorf VII was a brickworks west of the village of Ziersdorf in the Hollabrunn district in Lower Austria .

history

The facility in the Großfeld corridor consisted of a clay pit , a drying shed, a ring oven and several auxiliary buildings. The Rigler family is said to have started the business as early as 1890, and in 1884 the business register by the then mayor of Ziersdorf, Franz Rigler , was registered; In the land register, however, an exchange contract from Franz Rigler first appears in 1914. After changing owners, the brick factory was taken over in 1923 by Otto Biela and Robert Brosig, who were already running a brick factory in Hollabrunn . The raw material obtained in the company's own clay pit was silt , an aeolian sediment from the Quaternary , which occurs here in greater thickness.

During the Second World War , part of the mine site was used as a reserve oil pond . After the war, this oil was pumped out by the Soviet occupiers and transported away by car. In 1962 the descendants of Otto Biela with 24 employees produced a total of three million pieces of masonry bricks . In 1976, due to age-related and operational reasons, production was terminated and the factory closed. The last used brick sign Z BZ stands for Ziegelei Biela Ziersdorf .

Today's condition and documentation

The former administration building and workers' apartments are still located on the former brickworks area, which is still used commercially. The ring furnace was removed, and the former oil pool, which for years as a construction waste landfill served, is now filled in the first two thirds and overgrown with vegetation in the rear. The entire area is designated as a suspected contaminated site in the municipality's zoning plan.

The location of the no longer existing ring kiln is documented with old images in a brick museum that has meanwhile been built by the market town of Ziersdorf in a freely accessible barn.

Geology and paleontology

According to the geological map of the Republic of Austria, scale 1: 50,000 , the former clay pit has a multi-part loess profile , and loess snails and vertebrates have been found in this area .

literature

  • Helga Papp, Reinhard Rötzel, Ingeborg Wimmer-Frey: The brick kilns of the Hollabrunn district: history and geology , archive for deposit research of the Federal Geological Institute, Volume 24, Vienna 2003, pp. 117–191 PDF

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sabine Daxberger: Brick Museum shows the history of Ziersdorf. In: noe.orf.at. November 1, 2017. Retrieved May 29, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Federal Geological Institute: Geological Map of the Republic of Austria , sheet 22 Hollabrunn, Vienna 1998 PDF

Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '44.3 "  N , 15 ° 54' 58.5"  E