The Govăjdia Blast Furnace is a disused blast furnace in Govăjdia village, Ghelari Commune, Hunedoara County, in the Transylvania region of Romania. An earlier blast furnace had been set up at Toplița in 1781, but the quantity of raw materials it prepared for workshops involved in cast iron refining proved inadequate.
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It's an amazing structure, it's too bad it has been abandoned, it is a great part of history. In this amazing furnace we're smelted some of the parts of the Eifel Tower. It's free to visit to the public, and you can find more information about it on some info signs, so if you are around, it's...
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The oldest continuous process blast furnace in Europe. Produced grey iron for castings, with iron ore sourced from Ghelari mines, and charcoal produced locally. There is also a legend saying that some of the iron produced here, made it's way in the structure of the Eiffel...
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Ro. - Furnalul de la Govăjdia, județul Hunedoara, este considerat drept monument al arhitecturii industriale inca din anul 2000. Fiind construit intre anii 1806 si 1810 a servit la exploatarea minereurilor de fier din zona. Monumentul nu este protejat ci lasat in paragina, intrarea este gratis, locul pare abandonat.
En. - The Govăjdia Blast Furnace is a disused blast furnace in Govăjdia village, Hunedoara County, considered a monument of Industrial Architecture. Construction began in 1806 and finished in 1810, the site was used in order to prepare the extracted iron ore from the area. Today the monument is not protected and looks abandoned, it is free to...
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