Foot stove

Kielce or Feuerkieke is an old, especially common in northern Germany term for a portable device for heating, especially of the feet. Synonym hearth room was used related to nl. stoof and narrow. stove - see warmer.

A Kielce has a floor area of about 30 cm × 30 cm and about 20 cm high. It consists of wood and metal is heated with glowing briquettes, which are made ​​into a metal vessel. As cover can serve a stone or marble plate which retains heat. Other designs have holes in the lid, through which heated air flows upward. With Kielce is first designated only the outer container in which you put the material made ​​of steadier fire pot or plumber with the red-hot coals.

An unknown author of the 18th century saw the contemporary use of this item:

" [ ... ] For because our so very tenderly accustomed Women's Room for winter - time did not go to church without diß kan, without taking a fire - Kielce among themselves, however, but these where not the delicate feet, yet their beautiful shirts, and nice sub - skirts sometimes burn gantz terribly mind and without attribute the damage offtermahlen a gantz vile odor, also well cooked, which is then still the worst, cause a scornful laughter among the people; [ ... ] And yet the same Well even ashamed, even in the hand carry the fire Kielce with it. "

Dutch Kielce

Swell

Etymology

  • Gieke in: Adelung: Grammatically - Critical Dictionary of the High German dialect
  • Lemma Kielce. In: Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm: German Dictionary, Leipzig 1854-1960 ( www.woerterbuchnetz.de ).

For use

  • OL Hartwig (ed.): Johann Karl Gottfried Jacobssons technological dictionary 1 part A- F. Friedrich Nicolai, Berlin / Szczecin 1781, p 716 top full text in the Google Book Search
474971
de