| Juvolan Uusi Tiilitehdas Oy, Savonlinna |
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A small facility, the so called new Juvola brick factory has burnt bricks in North-Eastern rural lands of Savonlinna between years 1926 and 1963. Perhaps it's extremely remote location has saved the building to our days. Now the provincial officials have had their say about the building, and it will probably be preserved for historical value.
Should you ever drive here in winter, beware the steep curves. Roads are slippery here..
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Quickly looking not much more than farming buildings is the factory area. The stack, however, marks the place clearly. |
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It's a factory, it is! |
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The stack isn't tall but it succeeded in guiding atleast this stranger to the factory, which otherwise is way too concealed to show itself off the environment. |
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The building is basically a kiln with raised roof and an outdoor shelter around it on this side, which is round. Needless to say, production has surely been very low scale. |
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The bleak shade of photos was caused by time of visiting, afternoon of the shortest day of the year. |
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Stack was in relatively good shape. |
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Not a one single window glass had lasted intact. |
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Moving inside revealed an emptied interior. Probably originally a plank and lath jungle, the entire kiln building is now all empty apart from the kiln, which is present what comes to it's walls. |
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In kiln. |
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The strong everstanding smoke stack. |
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Kiln has reserved interior space all the way to the wood walls. Brick drying cabins have somehow been built directly atop the kiln. |
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There was some light inside too. |
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View inside the definitely smallest brick factory we've ever been to. |
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One hatch opening to the kiln, seen from beneath the rain shelter around the building. |
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Another opening. It is interesting to notice, that in abandoned brick kilns these openings almost never have the heave and hard to move iron hatches any more. |
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Coolout storage is quite rotten. |
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Or what you say? |
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The milling/mixing house was as a surprise tightly closed and not accessable without violence. |
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