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Iced well
Calcium oven
Hut of vineyard
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Pre-industrial
Architecture
- The Mills.
In the Eleventh Century, they started to use the
current of the water to move the mills destined to grind the
cereals. In Moianès there are some remains of these
watermills (more than 60), which were used until the end of the
Nineteenth Century. As the water flows were not strong and constant
enough, almost each one is a pond rate, meaning that the torrents
water is stored up and, when the water tank is full, the watergate
is opened to let the water run and move the mill.
- Iced well.
It is also told snowed oven. This industry provided
the county with ice, Barcelona's city and even some farther cities.
It has been very important in the county since the Sixteenth Century
until the Nineteenth; in the Moianès County we find one of
the most important concentrations of Europe of this kind of
constructions in a small county(25 or maybe more). Some of them are
being restored, particularly in Castellterçol that let you
visit them in detail. The wells have an arch roof, where they stored
up the ice inside during the wintertime to keep it till the summer,
and then they took it and carried at nights to its destination.
- Calcium
ovens.
The high content of lime in the formations of the
stones in the south of the county, made that this activity was quite
spread. In these ovens, the "calcium men" heated the
stones to temperatures of 1.000 ºC to get the "lime-stone".
- Huts of
vineyard.
From the Eighteenth Century to the end of the
Nineteenth, the vineyards were diffused along almost all the county,
with a special incidence in the western part. Nowadays, we can see
disseminated over the fields where in those days used to be vines;
remains of uncountable huts of vineyard built with the technique of
"dry stone". You can find some remains of other
constructions like: the "tines" (a type of receptacle),
built with "dry stone" and covered with pottery, used for
treading the grape.
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