Brick - History

Do you wondered what is the story of a brick, how much is already in progress? As for the European continent that emerged in the brick twelfth century in north-western Italy, and were introduced to northern Germany. It was then established so-called brick Gothic, a style that flourished in northern Europe, especially in the Baltic Sea regions, which have no natural resources of rocks. Gothic brick buildings which were built almost entirely of brick, located in Denmark, Germany, Poland and Russia. In the Renaissance and Baroque brick was unpopular, and the wall was often covered with plaster. Only in the middle of the eighteenth century brick regained a certain popularity, as evidenced, for example, Dutch Quarter in Potsdam. Transport of bulk construction materials such as bricks over long distances takes place before the development of networks rarely century canals, railways, roads and trucks. Until then, bricks were produced in the vicinity of their destination. In England in the eighteenth century, transport of the bricks were made by horse and cart at a distance ten miles (sixteen kilometers) along country roads.