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Masonry stoves are heating stoves developed in medieval Europe, or even earlier. Some sources are mentioning some kind of similar Roman stoves.

It is a wood burning stove with high efficiency and high thermal mass. Because of that mass it can accumulate heat in the fireplace and the result is a great efficiency because most of the wood gases are burnt. It is an efficient ecological alternative to ordinary wood burning stoves.

[edit] Useful links

• Wikipedia article
• Demotech simple brick stove
• Swedish ceramic stove aka kachelofen (German name)
• http://mha-net.org/ - the best site on the internet about masonry stoves, there was a original german book written in 1940 about traditional ceramic heating stoves , kachelofens. It was a complete how to book, but I don;t know is it still online.
• How-to manual for a Missouri design masonry brick heater.
• http://www.diymasonryheater.blogspot.com/ - the name says it all
• http://www.envisioneer.net/stove.php Very interesting stove from cement slabs, cheap, simple, affordable.

Grundof (pdf) This is the book about kachelofens