Govajdia Blast Furnace

The Govajdia Blast Furnace is a disused blast furnace in Govajdia village, Ghelari Commune, Hunedoara County, in the Transylvania area of Romania. An earlier blast furnace have been installation at Topli?a in 1781, however the amount of uncooked substances it organized for workshops concerned in solid iron refining proved insufficient. Thus, the Thesaurariat at Sibiu, which represented the Imperial Austrian authorities, coordinated mining activities in Transylvania and had an office based totally within the Hunyad Castle, determined in 1802 to build a second furnace in the Hunedoara place. The website online selected become at the confluence of two rivers near a group of forge works and iron mines.

Construction started in 1806, and despite the fact that completed in 1810, production simplest started in April 1813, as soon as the necessary annexes have been built. A tablet placed at the the front of the furnace examine: Augusto Imperante Francisco Extructum 1810 "Built 1810 at some point of the reign of the venerable Francis. The furnace's first period of use was fairly short at seven and a half months, because the crucible had come to be quite worn and enough solid iron had been generated to final the nearby workshops 3 years. In all, 1380.Three heaps of forged iron had been produced. Periods of restore, use and abandonment followed over the ensuing century.