Furnaces with heating shafts in the kitchens of Prague Castle

Vol.43,No.2(2018)

Miroslava Cejpová Magdaléna Biedermanová

https://doi.org/10.5817/AH2018-1-5

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http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/138344

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Abstract
This article discusses kitchen furnaces with hearths on a metal grid in a shaft, discovered at Prague Castle. In specialist literature of foreign provenance, they are referred to as fourneau or potager in the French milieu, or as murello per pignatte by Bartlomeo Scappi. Three furnaces were preserved at Prague Castle in situ. Two are dated to the second half of the 16th century and are located in the Ludwig Wing of the Old Palace, one is dated to the second half of the 19th century and is in the south wing, in the basement of "Maxmilian kitchens". Further furnaces located in now non-existent kitchens are known from historical plans from the 18th and 19th centuries. They were either individual, usually added to the perimeter wall, or were part of a base for open fire, typically by its shorter side. Some furnaces were not connected with chimneys, which confirms the assumption that they produced minimum smoke which could be eliminated by airing the room.

Keywords:
Prague Castle; kitchen; furnace; second half of the 16th century; 19th century

Pages:
401–409
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