“Gazeta Wyborcza” No. 162, 13 July 2004

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Gothic brick of the twenty-first century

Bricks same as those fired hundreds of years ago and used for the construction of Romanesque monasteries and Gothic cathedrals created a few dozen kilometers from Lublin. Felix Ignatius Trojanowski owns the only country in the brickyard, which can order restore the historic building material

To repair the Cracow Gate restorers will use specially made bricks in podkraśnickich Splavy.
– You will need three different dimensions, because the repaired walls were created at different times. The gate was rebuilt. Just look at the colored patches on the wall. This piece is made of bricks Lublin, one from Sandomierz – says Felix Trojanowski, who closed his eyes tell a brick made by hand and mechanically.

Ceglarz was in 1983, when his father took over his grandfather founded by Ignatius brickyard. – My sister is a doctor, I have a brother, I had no choice. But it was a good choice – says Trojanowski, an engineer by training and the need for the owner of the only country in the brick factory, which makes the traditional method of hand-brick Gothic, Romanesque and so. monastery.
Antique bricks came out of necessity, because I was looking for a niche market that would give the order. When the father led the company, he did a half million bricks per year, in the late 90s of contracts was 600 thousand. pieces.
-Najdziwniejsze Order did to Germany, where the final reconstructed the monastery wall wrap large – 11 cm thick and 25 cm wide bricks in the shape of the Bible. Each of the bricks have profiles and one in the second was inserted as blocks. A brick gate Lublin is nothing special. This is the second historic order of Lublin. Fragments przemurowań basement of the Jesuit college in Cathedral Square were made with my bricks – says Trojanowski.
The mystery of the Gothic or Romanesque brick consists in mixing proportions of different types of clay. Kraśnicka and in general podlubelska clay is clear, yellowish. Brickmakers say that it is “skinny” as opposed to the dark “oily”, for example. Sandomierz. To get the shade of the bricks from which our ancestors built the gate, you have to mix different clay and in such manner as before. Mechanical devices must give effect I gave the hooves of cattle walking on a treadmill.
– No improvers, chemistry, son-tetycznych dyes – Mr. Felix calculates the iron rules of production of antique bricks. They are placed with their German and English churches. They were used at the Royal Castle and Wilanow. Contemporary designers from France want bricks texture for decorative walls, and the villa owners in Poland procure large monastic Gothic brick wine cellar and wine.
AGNIESZKA Dybek