Brickyard with clamp kiln

Replica
Built: 2003

Brickyards are known to have existed in Hesse since the Middle Ages. They spread further in the eighteenth century along with the rise of brick construction. Before large-scale brickworks with powerful furnaces became common in the age of industrialisation, however, smaller brickyards usually fired their bricks in primitive, temporary kilns. Unfired bricks were required for the infill of the timber frames of houses; they were later sometimes replaced by fired clay bricks. Brick production began in the autumn when the clods were extracted from local clay pits.