Brickworks

Traditionally Dutch houses but also castles, bridges or factories are built from brick. Numerous brickworks popped up in places along the shores of the rivers where suitable deposits of clay were available and the coal necessary for burning the bricks could be brought in and the products shipped out on barges.

Few survive today as museum, and even less in working order. One is the Vogelensangh brickworks in Deest. This factory was built in 1918-1919 and bricks are still baked in much the same way as 100 years ago.

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