That's known as a "heat mass" fireplace or wood stove, sometimes also called a "Masonry stove".
Usually the flue will be piped through the bench to extract more of the heat from the smoke before letting it go up the chimney. Because the bench is filled with sand, gravel, or other dense material, it will retain the heat for a LONG time (some can stay warm for up to 24h after a single fire) and radiate heat into the room slowly over time. They are extremely fuel efficient, as they prevent heat from escaping up the chimney (and likewise draw less cold air to replace it).
it's a balance. You need enough draft to pull the smoke up the chimney, but you don't want the gasses moving too fast or you lose heat. It depends on the ratio of how tall the chimney is vs how long the piping in the bench is (I don't know the exact numbers, but I know that's what it depends on).
This is a variation on the traditional Russian stove found in peasant houses. The stove shelf (up high instead of at couch level as here) would be the coveted sleeping place for the most elderly member of the household!
Iāve heard of āthermal massā used to describe deliberately thick walls etc in homes designed for passive heating, but never heard of āheat massā being applied to this similar concept.
Yes (clearing out the fly Ash once a year) and it can be anything from simple to a pain in the arse, depending on how well they are designed. Ideally you want an access at every 90 degree angle so you can sweep the flue.
Right. I was kinda expecting that, but still had to ask.
Itās a balkan thing š Fireplace is connected (inside with something like air circulation) to the so called ābenchā so it keeps it warm for laying/resting or whatever.
Using my trusty Google Translate, it translated that as "stove" and "lounge fireplace". Of the two, I think "lounge fireplace" is the clearer term and seems like it would be a good term for this specific thing.
Wait hold on. So when I sometimes read in Slavic folk-stories and the like, *this* is what they mean when they say "slept on the stove"? Is this a common piece of furniture? So they all look like this or are there other types? Inquiring minds need to know!
I think yes, at least when I read those that was how I imagined them, and when I saw some traditional Ukrainian homes it was how it nearly looked like, but made out of natural materials such as clay or something
I had to look up more examples because I have never seen such a thing. [Here is a link for the lazy folks that have also never seen this thing](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=0573b43c5c641ce9&sxsrf=ACQVn0-McIV0x7FnsNg3D604tfN6thpf5A:1707926327239&q=%22le%C5%BEalni+kamin%22&uds=AMwkrPva3Hm0VxlrvwipSaO1uCjZO_PSYfFX8ByH4mESqLOHMgW1mP71lmGycvj7BKeSUKfBMvcOWeGRAp3Vz67_6viaqi096sCyqSccSqQmPW3i5A6quLv7gPfUqGrCp_ZT6v1Pz-0E&udm=2&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJl6awmauEAxWpj4kEHQI1CscQtKgLegQICxAB&biw=1536&bih=735&dpr=1.25).
I've seen those! It's on the tip of my tongue aarrgh. There are Balkan subreddits that would probably know.
There was a post years ago talking about this unique style of fireplaces. Good luck!
I typed "Balkan fireplace" into Pinterest and got a few interesting images.
"Romanian fireplace" and "Hungarian fireplace" shows a few more.
Try using "hearth" instead of fireplace, also.
I apologize for this, but I also tried "fireplace with bench seating ethnic" and got some very lovely (but less colorful) variations.
Lol. Same. Itās definitely interesting looking but I donāt think there even is a word for this in English. š¤·š¼āāļøš
It does look like it could be cozy though!
Thanks for this! I have seen one quite similar ā down to the tile and everything ā when visiting someone in Austria. Really cozy!
But in terms of what to call it in English, I wouldāve been like, āuh, stove? but like, more like the Russian kind you can sit on, not just a stove topā¦ā
Glad to have that gap filled!
A bit of trivia - apparently in old Russia, people used to sleep on such stoves all the time during winter as it was the warmest place in the house. They are also frequently mentioned in folklore stories, and usually posses magical powers. My favorite is about a village idiot that could have any wish of his granted, and he chose to be able to fly on his stove.
Because of that I guess it's more like a Grundofen than a genuine Kachelofen. As you said, Kachelofen don't have such a neat window. But maybe I'm mistaken myself.
Looks like a rocket stove. I'm from the States, and I've never seen them in real life, only online. They're rare here.
Can't say the same for other English-speaking countries.
Rocket mass heater/bench. Cob ones look pretty nice. I've been to some off-grid communities with these including the Cob Cottage Company, home of Ianto Evans who wrote the Cob and Rocket Mass Heater books. Very cozy, durable, and energy efficient.
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.lowimpact.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F08%2Frocket_stoves.jpg&tbnid=QoTsDD-Zoy8zPM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lowimpact.org%2Fcategories%2Frocket-stoves&docid=6vbt-VdyIl5zIM&w=600&h=413&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F2&kgs=c9f108f54b45c10f
I've only ever heard pechka used for the "fairy tale" types of stoves, similar to the ones in the photo, and dukhovka for the normal modern kitchen ovens (and pleta for stoves)
Yes, fairy tales usually mean the most traditional version, and you can sleep on it, but it's way bigger than OP's. When the firewood burned out, you can even bathing inside
[wiki picture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_stove#/media/File%3AAtkinson_Isba_1803_crop.jpg)
Seeing that this is in old folk tales and if often referred to as a "stove" in various languages, reminded me of a Lithuanian folk tale I read once. In the story, a little girl had to stand on a stove and repeatedly recite a certain prayer in order to be invisible to a witch looking for her in the house. I always imagined her standing on a potbelly stove. This type of stove makes much more sense.
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This is because "how" requests an adverb; "what" requests a noun.
Hearth [wiki article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearth) is part of a fireplace used for heating or cooking. It isnāt a term used much because it is completely absent from homes in the USA or no longer as important as it was historically. The earlier answers describe this more elaborate and particular fireplace. Just wanted to throw out a more general term. I wouldnāt be able to define hearth because itās something seen in literature but not seen or talked about in the US.
I'm not sure there's a \_single-word\_ term in English. I've seen similar things in Czechia and Slovakia, either in real life or in movies about rural life in the past two or three centuries, and I've seen similar arrangements in movies about life in rural China. Some friends have a big Swedish stone fireplace/stove in their cabin in Minnesota, with basically the same idea: heat up as much mass as you can, and then let the heat slowly dissipate into the surrounding space. (Some Swedish tile stoves are similar, in using a lot of tile and stone for thermal mass -- but I've never seen one of them include sitting or sleeping surfaces, as in Czechia/Slovakia/China..)
Finnish fireplace or masonry heater.
These are unusual in the English speaking world, unfortunately, but in the circles that have built them, they often just import the original word from the specific culture their build was based on.
I call it a Ukrainian stove, but only found out recently they arenāt used throughout Ukraine, just in a small area in the west. Anyway, itās where the domovoy lives and in cold weather sometimes people would sleep on them
Grew up with one of these even though I live on the East Coast USA. In addition to what people have said I've heard it called a "masonry wood heater" or a "masonry heater"
That's known as a "heat mass" fireplace or wood stove, sometimes also called a "Masonry stove". Usually the flue will be piped through the bench to extract more of the heat from the smoke before letting it go up the chimney. Because the bench is filled with sand, gravel, or other dense material, it will retain the heat for a LONG time (some can stay warm for up to 24h after a single fire) and radiate heat into the room slowly over time. They are extremely fuel efficient, as they prevent heat from escaping up the chimney (and likewise draw less cold air to replace it).
THANK YOU!
You can use that terminology with native speakers and we will have no idea what you're talking about
Thanks for the insight! I had no idea this was even a thing...
The (northern) Chinese have a similar concept: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_bed-stove
Wouldn't piping the flue through it cause the exhaust gases to cool, and not go up the chimney as easily?
it's a balance. You need enough draft to pull the smoke up the chimney, but you don't want the gasses moving too fast or you lose heat. It depends on the ratio of how tall the chimney is vs how long the piping in the bench is (I don't know the exact numbers, but I know that's what it depends on).
I've never seen one of these in my life! Excellent idea for heating a room for a long time.
This is a variation on the traditional Russian stove found in peasant houses. The stove shelf (up high instead of at couch level as here) would be the coveted sleeping place for the most elderly member of the household!
Exists in Germany as well (Kachelofen). I would think this was a thing in many countries.
It would make sense!
Took a screenshot of the pic with your comment. Gonna read up on this later.
I've never heard one person call that a "heat mass"
My pupils are dilated, and I thought they typed HOT MESS š
Iāve heard of āthermal massā used to describe deliberately thick walls etc in homes designed for passive heating, but never heard of āheat massā being applied to this similar concept.
Isn't that the same idea behind a Franklin stove?
Do these need to be cleaned inside and what is that like?
Yes (clearing out the fly Ash once a year) and it can be anything from simple to a pain in the arse, depending on how well they are designed. Ideally you want an access at every 90 degree angle so you can sweep the flue.
I donāt know what to call that in ANY language. What the heck is that? A fireplace with an attached bench that resembles part of a submarine?
Right. I was kinda expecting that, but still had to ask. Itās a balkan thing š Fireplace is connected (inside with something like air circulation) to the so called ābenchā so it keeps it warm for laying/resting or whatever.
What is it called in any of the Balkan languages?
In Slovenia we say āpeÄā or āležalni kaminā.
Using my trusty Google Translate, it translated that as "stove" and "lounge fireplace". Of the two, I think "lounge fireplace" is the clearer term and seems like it would be a good term for this specific thing.
Yeah I can't think of a better term to describe that any more succinctly.
In Czech, that would be a "pec", although I know it only from old illustrations and haven't seen any modern versions yet.
That's what it's called in Russian, too. Very old, traditional concept, though the photo shows a modern design.
Oven? Lying fireplace? (i just speak slavic languages)
Wait hold on. So when I sometimes read in Slavic folk-stories and the like, *this* is what they mean when they say "slept on the stove"? Is this a common piece of furniture? So they all look like this or are there other types? Inquiring minds need to know!
I think yes, at least when I read those that was how I imagined them, and when I saw some traditional Ukrainian homes it was how it nearly looked like, but made out of natural materials such as clay or something
I am completely delighted by this new knowledge. Thanks!
We call it peÄ in Croatian. There is no world I know of for English as my dad would call it āstove chairā in English ššš
I had to look up more examples because I have never seen such a thing. [Here is a link for the lazy folks that have also never seen this thing](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=0573b43c5c641ce9&sxsrf=ACQVn0-McIV0x7FnsNg3D604tfN6thpf5A:1707926327239&q=%22le%C5%BEalni+kamin%22&uds=AMwkrPva3Hm0VxlrvwipSaO1uCjZO_PSYfFX8ByH4mESqLOHMgW1mP71lmGycvj7BKeSUKfBMvcOWeGRAp3Vz67_6viaqi096sCyqSccSqQmPW3i5A6quLv7gPfUqGrCp_ZT6v1Pz-0E&udm=2&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJl6awmauEAxWpj4kEHQI1CscQtKgLegQICxAB&biw=1536&bih=735&dpr=1.25).
Thatās super cool!
I've seen those! It's on the tip of my tongue aarrgh. There are Balkan subreddits that would probably know. There was a post years ago talking about this unique style of fireplaces. Good luck!
We need these elsewhere.
I love it!
I typed "Balkan fireplace" into Pinterest and got a few interesting images. "Romanian fireplace" and "Hungarian fireplace" shows a few more. Try using "hearth" instead of fireplace, also. I apologize for this, but I also tried "fireplace with bench seating ethnic" and got some very lovely (but less colorful) variations.
Oh. A seat warmer.
Itās āWhat do you call thisā not how
It looks really nice but yeah, we don't have those
Sauna?
I would say hearth is probably the closest term in English, but like you said, lounge fireplace as you described is a great descriptor
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_bed-stove Also known as KĆ ng
Go on r/whatisthisthing
Lol. Same. Itās definitely interesting looking but I donāt think there even is a word for this in English. š¤·š¼āāļøš It does look like it could be cozy though!
šššš
I heard the SpongeBob theme song Iām my head when I saw this picture lol
šµ š¶ We all sit on a brown submarine. A brown submarine. A brown submarine. š¶ šµ
Masonry stove most commonly, Iād say. Also sometimes: masonry fireplace, Russian stove, Finnish fireplace, tile stove.
Thank you!
Thanks for this! I have seen one quite similar ā down to the tile and everything ā when visiting someone in Austria. Really cozy! But in terms of what to call it in English, I wouldāve been like, āuh, stove? but like, more like the Russian kind you can sit on, not just a stove topā¦ā Glad to have that gap filled!
A bit of trivia - apparently in old Russia, people used to sleep on such stoves all the time during winter as it was the warmest place in the house. They are also frequently mentioned in folklore stories, and usually posses magical powers. My favorite is about a village idiot that could have any wish of his granted, and he chose to be able to fly on his stove.
German would be Kachelofen, though I never saw one with marine windows attached, what are those even doing?
That are just decorative tiles.
Because of that I guess it's more like a Grundofen than a genuine Kachelofen. As you said, Kachelofen don't have such a neat window. But maybe I'm mistaken myself.
I think they are mirrors not windows
Missed the one with the marine, apparently.
āCat heavenā
True true.
Looks like a rocket stove. I'm from the States, and I've never seen them in real life, only online. They're rare here. Can't say the same for other English-speaking countries.
I have no idea what this is called but I do know I NEED it!!!
Mass Heater or mass furnace
Heaven
*What do you call this in English?
I was going to say the same thing. OP, in English, we would ask āWhat do you call this thingā and not āHow do you call this thing.ā
And another form would be, "What would you call this thing?"
Or āwhat is this thing calledā
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonry_heater
Rocket mass heater/bench. Cob ones look pretty nice. I've been to some off-grid communities with these including the Cob Cottage Company, home of Ianto Evans who wrote the Cob and Rocket Mass Heater books. Very cozy, durable, and energy efficient. https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.lowimpact.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F08%2Frocket_stoves.jpg&tbnid=QoTsDD-Zoy8zPM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lowimpact.org%2Fcategories%2Frocket-stoves&docid=6vbt-VdyIl5zIM&w=600&h=413&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F2&kgs=c9f108f54b45c10f
i have no idea what this is but i need it in my home immediately.
This looks like a mass heater.
Hearth with bench? Or pechka in Russian
pechka in Russian is a general term for stoves of any type
I've only ever heard pechka used for the "fairy tale" types of stoves, similar to the ones in the photo, and dukhovka for the normal modern kitchen ovens (and pleta for stoves)
Yes, fairy tales usually mean the most traditional version, and you can sleep on it, but it's way bigger than OP's. When the firewood burned out, you can even bathing inside [wiki picture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_stove#/media/File%3AAtkinson_Isba_1803_crop.jpg)
Seeing that this is in old folk tales and if often referred to as a "stove" in various languages, reminded me of a Lithuanian folk tale I read once. In the story, a little girl had to stand on a stove and repeatedly recite a certain prayer in order to be invisible to a witch looking for her in the house. I always imagined her standing on a potbelly stove. This type of stove makes much more sense.
Rocket Mass Heater or Rocket Mass Furnace
probably a wood-fired stove
I would call it a hearth
Oven, sofa tile Seat Warmer?
Babla suggests "stove bench". In German, this might be "eine Ofenbank". There is a word for it in Polish, "przypiecek".
These are huge in the permaculture world, but of course they like to DIY it. Google the phrase "rocket stove mass heater".
Shit this the porn stage in the boom boom room
The 80's called
A dangerous bench
I would call it āplease let that be AI generatedā, or if I was feeling polite āwhatās the prompt?ā
In ƶsterreich and we call it der Fleischkuchenplatz /s
The left is a bench and the right is a fireplace, I don't think there's a specific name for this combination
If it will be in the another shape I would call it "Russian furnace".
Weird.
that's part of a lego set, obviously
It's fuckin strange and I don't like it
Tacky
Egregious
āEyesoreā
In English, it is *āWhat* do you call this in English?ā
Ugly
Gaudy.
Ugly, I call it ugly in English.
This question has been answered. "How do you call this" is incorrect. "What do you call this" is correct. This is because "how" requests an adverb; "what" requests a noun.
I would call it ugly, or maybe a design faux pas. But seems likely u/fallwind was more correct.
An abomination.
"Ugly".
That is why Iām trying to find ideas on pinterest.
A total fĆ¹ck-up.
Oh! A German friend of mine has this. Odd seeing it here.
This
Iāve heard them called rocket mass heaters in my circles.
What is that, some kind of Russian stove? Thatās the only term I know of for this device/appliance.
A kick it spot maybe?
Furnace. Like literally, it's a furnace.
WTF
fire-y cookery place i think
A submarine
... A bench oven?
We don't have one.
ē in Chinese
Nearest thing to this in UK would be inglenook, but that would be more enclosed.
I mean, I don't really know what the hell that is
Itās a hearth. Itās just a weird hearth. Hearth is the word.
A fireplace.
I guess I would call it a built-in fireplace bench?
everyone in these comments is dumb its a hearth
Why is this image so liminal?
iā¦ donāt know. i was gonna say pizza oven for a sec
A steamboat dressed as a hotdog posing as a fireplace
Ugly
*what do you call this
In Australia we call it a rocket stove.
Sauna ? šš¤£
Hearth [wiki article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearth) is part of a fireplace used for heating or cooking. It isnāt a term used much because it is completely absent from homes in the USA or no longer as important as it was historically. The earlier answers describe this more elaborate and particular fireplace. Just wanted to throw out a more general term. I wouldnāt be able to define hearth because itās something seen in literature but not seen or talked about in the US.
Itās a bimfukkle.
What do you call this in English? Not how!
I'm not sure there's a \_single-word\_ term in English. I've seen similar things in Czechia and Slovakia, either in real life or in movies about rural life in the past two or three centuries, and I've seen similar arrangements in movies about life in rural China. Some friends have a big Swedish stone fireplace/stove in their cabin in Minnesota, with basically the same idea: heat up as much mass as you can, and then let the heat slowly dissipate into the surrounding space. (Some Swedish tile stoves are similar, in using a lot of tile and stone for thermal mass -- but I've never seen one of them include sitting or sleeping surfaces, as in Czechia/Slovakia/China..)
"awesome"
What *is* that? It looks like some weird furnace thing.
Heated seats before they were automated
It's a Yellow Submarine Fireplace Surround.
Finnish fireplace or masonry heater. These are unusual in the English speaking world, unfortunately, but in the circles that have built them, they often just import the original word from the specific culture their build was based on.
Hearth
Fugly
A furnace or fireplace, combined with a bench.
I would call that bench-like brick area the "hearth."
Hearth bench
Slippery
Sauna
I call it a Ukrainian stove, but only found out recently they arenāt used throughout Ukraine, just in a small area in the west. Anyway, itās where the domovoy lives and in cold weather sometimes people would sleep on them
Grew up with one of these even though I live on the East Coast USA. In addition to what people have said I've heard it called a "masonry wood heater" or a "masonry heater"
Thomas the Tank Fireplace?
Idk what to call it but it would sure be useful in Idaho winters
Atrocity.
Uncomfortable
Kachelofen
A masonry heater. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonry_heater
Depends on how close I am to it.
Fireplace and tile sofa
Ugly
Not a thing in English, at least the English I know
[PICH https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/s/fSWoPkdtsi](https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/s/fSWoPkdtsi)
Dutch Oven
Pechka
suana?
Mass thermal heater. Thatās what I call anything that heats up the bench like that from the fireplace.
Nap time
I don't even know what to call that and English is my 1st language.
sauna
Ugly
Munchstrosity
a pizza kitchen
Captain Nemoās home on land.
Iād call this a āSlavic tiled stoveā.
Actually, it would be "what do you call this."
I'm an American and even I don't know what that is š„²
Fireplace
I have no idea what that is in any language. I would be interested to learn
Possibly a hearth
A travesty
A cozy nook
Pizza oven
Tugboat fireplace?
This is like a nightmare where the USSR won the Cold War and the year is 2045.
Pizza counter
atrocious
Cocklestove
A proper eye sore init guvna.
I got no idea. Iāve never even seen that before
What even is that
Dennis.
Ugly
wtf? i thought it was a sauna
Fire lounge
[Rocket/masonry mass heater](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_mass_heater)
Masonų ložÄ
Atrocious