Stonemason's and bossier's huts @museum.de

The work took place at two locations up here: In the quarry itself, and in the workshops arranged around the museum building here. The forge was housed in a brick building. The forge fires blazed there all day long. It would have been far too dangerous to keep them in wooden huts. There were sheds for the equipment and later also for the locomotives. The workers who crushed the large granite blocks from the quarry were also given covered workplaces.

These huts remained open on one side so that the stones could be transported in and out smoothly. Although the men were protected from rain and snow, they were still exposed to the heat and cold.

There were different huts for different stages of the work. This was because the stones were only gradually cut from the large blocks. First, stone slabs of the right height were created. You can see such a slab in the hut where the two wooden carts are standing. These stone slabs were cut into individual cobblestone cubes by the stone cutters. Originally, of course, everything was done by hand. It was only with the development of electrical equipment that more and more work could be done mechanically. For example, with the pneumatic hammer.

Are these the original stonemason's and bossier's huts? Well, hello: after all, we are a museum! So they are so real. - ... um, but, uh, not from here. They come from a quarry in Demitz-Thumitz near Bautzen. That's just under 40 kilometers from here.

In October 1995, they were taken from there and rebuilt here in the Königshain Hills.