Aljibes - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 19 May 2022 15:14:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Aljibes - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Well with a rotating system in Barrax (Albacete) https://historylab.es/well-with-a-rotating-system-in-barrax-albacete/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=well-with-a-rotating-system-in-barrax-albacete Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:09 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/pozo-con-un-sistema-rotatorio-en-barrax-albacete/ Folk architecture. Photograph of an open-air well with a complex construction system based on rotation to obtain water.

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]]> A well used during the Modern Age consisting of a curbstone with pillars and a wooden cylinder where a rope was placed that was wound up by the action of the crank, raising a bucket of water. This well, located in the municipality of Barrax (Albacete), is completed with two iron hoops, a crank for the rotation of the handle and a wooden lid.
Due to occasional droughts in the form of rainfall, the wells were of great importance in the common supply of villages and hamlets. The underground streams of water, clean and drinkable due to the purifying action of seepage into the ground, helped the villagers to maintain subsistence gardens in times of crisis.

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]]> Simple cistern in Encina Hermosa (Lezuza) https://historylab.es/simple-cistern-in-encina-hermosa-lezuza/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=simple-cistern-in-encina-hermosa-lezuza Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:03 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/aljibe-sencillo-en-encina-hermosa-lezuza/ Popular architecture. Photograph of a cistern used for the collection and conservation of water during the Middle and Modern Ages.

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]]> A cistern is a structure that makes it possible to collect and maintain water. Its construction made it possible to keep the water drinkable and prevent contamination; for this purpose, stone and lime masonry walls were used with a height of approximately 2 metres. In this way, the interior was isolated from external agents. The front mouth, through which access to the water resource is gained, is inserted in a round arch with a recessed enclosure. There were also cisterns with other materials and more elaborate construction topologies, with a tiled hipped roof over a square structure, with a door and ventilation holes.

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