page_title: Hakkemose Brickworks
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hakkemose Brickworks / History
caption_attribution_description: Johannes Peter Langgaard (1811-1890), Danish mechanic and industrialist
context_page_description: Hakkemose Brickworks was a Danish brickyard and ceramics factory located at Taastrup, Denmark. The central lake in Hakkemosen is its former clay pit.
context_section_description: Inventor and mechanic Johannes Peter Langgaard purchased the farm Hakkemose at Taastrup in 1847 and founded the brickyard at the site on 10 November that same year.
  Langgaard  had studied the latest technological trends in Germany and constructed a machine for the production of bricks. In 1868 , he also began the construction of a Hoffmann kiln with 15 chambers. Each chamber had room for 22,500 bricks.
  Hakkemose Brickworks had by the 1870s developed into the largest brickyard in the country. It produced 7 million bricks in 1872. In 1883, it also started a production of terracotta objects and faience cocklestoves. The brickyard was represented and won awards on the 1872 Nordic Exhibition in Copenhagen and again on the Nordic Exhibition of 1888.
  Langgaard passed away in 1890 and his heirs sold the brickyard to a British consortium in 1895. The clay deposits had been depleted in 1908 and the Hoffmann kiln was demolished in 1909. The factory was from then on used for production of ceramic objects and tiles. Morten Korch was managing director of the factory from October 1909 to September 1911. It closed in 1915.
caption: Johannes Peter Langgaard photographed by P. C. Koch
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