Hiking / Sightseeing, Potash oven

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This is the only known, preserved potash oven in Hälsingland.
It was probably used in the first half of the 19th century.
The oven was placed where there was a good supply of deciduous trees,
above all Birch, but here it was most likely
much Asp used.

Good equipment was also needed to build the furnace
therefore a place with suitable stones or boulders was needed.

Here on the site there are nice slabs and reasonably large blocks
to use to manufacture the oven. Omega Replica Watches
The deciduous trees were burned and the ashes were processed in the oven.
It was placed in a clay jar that looked like pots, hence the name Pottaska,
which can also be called potassium carbonate.

Asp grew a lot here, so this wood was used.
The Asp became a very strong lye.
Birch was otherwise the wood most used
for the manufacture of potash.

The potash bag was mainly used as a cleaning agent
and in the manufacture of glass, gunpowder and medicines.
Also look around at the hobs.
Could it possibly have been a place where stone was broken,
for example, house foundations, etc.?
We have not been able to find anything about this.

A very detailed description and history is compiled
by Åke Nätterö on Dellenportalen's website.

Google Pottaskeugn or use the QR code below
to access this page directly.

Directions:

Go west out of Ängebo towards Brännås,
About 1 km after Björsarv, turn right on a narrow gravel road.
Walther's Boplats on the map. Follow the road for about 3.5 km,
marked in blue on the map,
turn right and go up the mountain just under 4 km.

Road sign on the right shows the path to the potash oven.

The length of the trail is about 0.7 km

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