Calefactory

When heated room or calefactory is called in monasteries a heated room where the monks or nuns could stop in winter. It is sometimes meant by calefactory only the space below the actual heat exchange, in which burned the open fire for heating. The operation of the heat for the room charge was the calefactor (lat. ) = heater. Hence the name for a trusty laborers for simple tasks developed.

But Wärmestube also referred to an outpatient point of contact for the homeless, usually one day meeting.

• Space ( building)
• Architecture of monasteries
• Homelessness