Rudice – brick windmill
This windmill of the Dutch type is now a permanent exhibition of the history of the town, mineralogy, speleology, the iron industry, metallurgy and mining. A geological park is open on the mill grounds.
Ostrov u Macochy – brick windmill
A windmill of the Dutch type now in private ownership.
Petrovice – brick windmill
A converted mill of the Dutch type – one of the oldest surviving mills in the area.
Šošůvka – brick windmill
A mill of the Dutch type. Only the circular foundations remain.
Josefov – Františčina Huť
An original blast furnace established in 1748 – a “Belgian” type of furnace. Today, it is the oldest surviving furnace in Central Europe. The whole grounds, including the surrounding buildings, were declared the first technical reservation in the Czech Republic. A permanent exhibition on the iron industry from the Technical Museum in Brno can be visited in the administration building. There are also other ironworks in Blansko – Klamovka, Paulinka and Mariánská.
Černá Hora – Manor Brewery
Established in around 1530. It still produces beer of excellent quality to this day.
Lipovec – the Velká Dohoda lime works
A well-preserved lime works building from 1927 that was operational until the end of the nineteen seventies. A footpath marked in green leads from Lipovec to the lime works.
Blansko – Klamovka
The only one of the old Salm ironworks in Blansko to survive to this day, built in 1853–1855 in the Neo-Gothic style. It later served as a turbine testing laboratory, where Viktor Kaplan himself performed trials. The ironworks is one of the stops along The Iron Trail through the Moravian Karst.
Blansko – the Ježek railway bridge
A 140-year-old riveted truss railway bridge built originally over the River Berounka on the Prague – Plzeň line, brought to Blansko in around 1911 and used by the company K. and R. Ježek as a siding bridge over the River Svitava. It was moved to a neighbouring plot of land as a technical monument in 2009 during alterations to the riverbed. The bridge is in the care of the civic association of railway history enthusiasts Kolejová o.s.
This windmill of the Dutch type is now a permanent exhibition of the history of the town, mineralogy, speleology, the iron industry, metallurgy and mining. A geological park is open on the mill grounds.
Ostrov u Macochy – brick windmill
A windmill of the Dutch type now in private ownership.
Petrovice – brick windmill
A converted mill of the Dutch type – one of the oldest surviving mills in the area.
Šošůvka – brick windmill
A mill of the Dutch type. Only the circular foundations remain.
Josefov – Františčina Huť
An original blast furnace established in 1748 – a “Belgian” type of furnace. Today, it is the oldest surviving furnace in Central Europe. The whole grounds, including the surrounding buildings, were declared the first technical reservation in the Czech Republic. A permanent exhibition on the iron industry from the Technical Museum in Brno can be visited in the administration building. There are also other ironworks in Blansko – Klamovka, Paulinka and Mariánská.
Černá Hora – Manor Brewery
Established in around 1530. It still produces beer of excellent quality to this day.
Lipovec – the Velká Dohoda lime works
A well-preserved lime works building from 1927 that was operational until the end of the nineteen seventies. A footpath marked in green leads from Lipovec to the lime works.
Blansko – Klamovka
The only one of the old Salm ironworks in Blansko to survive to this day, built in 1853–1855 in the Neo-Gothic style. It later served as a turbine testing laboratory, where Viktor Kaplan himself performed trials. The ironworks is one of the stops along The Iron Trail through the Moravian Karst.
Blansko – the Ježek railway bridge
A 140-year-old riveted truss railway bridge built originally over the River Berounka on the Prague – Plzeň line, brought to Blansko in around 1911 and used by the company K. and R. Ježek as a siding bridge over the River Svitava. It was moved to a neighbouring plot of land as a technical monument in 2009 during alterations to the riverbed. The bridge is in the care of the civic association of railway history enthusiasts Kolejová o.s.
