Saline Graduation Towers in Ciechocinek / Teznie w Ciechocinku My Fav Spot

Saline Graduation Towers in Ciechocinek

Teznie w Ciechocinku

It is unique and largest wooden structure in Europe to evaporate water from brine, were designed by James Graff - a professor at the Akademia Gornicza in Kielce. In Ciechocinek built three such structures - arranged in the shape of a horseshoe. Construction of the towers I and II lasted from 1824 to 1828, third was created in 1859. The basis of the towers is about 7,000 stuck in the ground oak piles, on which a spruce-pine structure filled with blackthorn, after which brine flows. The height of the towers is 15,8 m and their total length is 1741,5 m. The brine is pumped to the towers source No. 11 (Fountain "Mushroom") and pumped to the top of the trays installed on the top. Hence brine filtered drop by drop along the walls of the towers and under the influence of wind and intense sunlight evaporates. Around the towers creates the famous, rich in iodine microclimate creates a natural, therapeutic inhalation.

parks and recreation town squares Kuyavia-Pomerania, Poland Ciechocinek, Kuyavia-Pomerania, Poland