Zeitz Travel Tip:
Briquette and Industrial Machine Factory and Museum
Briquette Factory, Zeitz
In 1889 a briquette factory named Herrmannschacht
by Richard Herrmann started operating. The technical equipment was manufactured by another famous Zeitz enterprise called Zemag
. All of the briquette presses, dryers and other machines were powered by only one steam engine of 12 H.P., which was replaced by an electric motor in 1914. All the machines and units of the first phase of industrialization in Middle Germany have been preserved to this day. Since 1945, increasingly brown coal from the environs of Zeitz was processed in the briquette factory. The last day of production was December 31, 1959. Already in 1961 the factory was listed as a historic monument. Today it is the oldest preserved briquette factory of the first generation in the world and a very important monument of industrial history.
In 1994 the Central German Park for Environment and Technology association was founded to preserve old industrial monuments for later generations. Today the briquette factory is a fantastic industrial museum. In a small brown coal forest, in the factory itself and in a museum of stoves visitors can discover the development, manufacture and utilization of brown coal.
Hours: April to September, Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 5pm.
Admission: Adults 3.50 €, Concessions 2.50 €.
[ Source: http://www.zeitz.de/index.php?id=146018001007 ]
Related: http://www.herrmannschacht.de/
Address: Naumburger Str. 99, 06712 Zeitz
Tags: Zeitz, Museum, Coal, Briquette
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