Brick Factory A.
It's known from historical sources that the craft of manufaturing bricks from burnt clay has been practised in Schleswig-Holstein (the northernmost state of Germany) since the 13th century.
The first documented brick production facility started production in the year 1520.
More than 1.000 former brick factories have been identified in the Schleswig-Holstein area. This is one of them.
Bricks were produced on this site for a good 100 years. Between 1910 and 1980, the company built a handful of buildings on the site next to a rubber factory, including a production hall in 1978 and a clay storage
hall in 1980. However, buildings such as a workshop with a transformer house and an oil storage facility date back to the founding period. In the 1930s, residential and administrative buildings were built on the site.
The brickworks produced bricks until 2003 and was one of only four brick producers in the state of Schleswig-Holstein at the time. Until 20 years ago, more than 300 different types of bricks and over 200 molds left the factory, which ultimately had to cease operations due to the economic conditions. When the family business filed for insolvency, almost 30 employees lost their jobs.
Visited: October 19, 2014 and April 19, 2020
Location: Undisclosed, Germany
Status: Development planned
GALLERY UPDATE: New photos added taken on April 19, 2020
