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In former times, when Berchtesgaden was still
"Fuerstprobstei", only chosen people were allowed to visit the salt mine.
Today this vault is open to everyone and the attendance remains an unforgettable
experience. Bring in annually over 400000 visitors in the mine, by the way in the same
protective clothing according to the type of the old miner clothing, which have been
already carried by kings and princes at the entry. And now a miner acomanies you through
the fascinating world under days. You are shifted automatically into another time. With
the pit-train you drive in the 600m long lug by the riding seat a into the
"Kaiser Franz Sinkwerk", an enormous hall with a cover surface of 3000 square |
meter. From here walk either on a comfortable or -
which is still manymore beautiful - you slide over one of uncounted miner trousers
smooth-polished chute 34m down to the next station, a beautiful salt cave. In the cave you
will be astonished, as wonderful the transparent colours of the rock salt lights up. Only
a few steps ahead an instructive film continues to take up your attention over the
emergence of the salt deposit places and the production of the salt. Then the guidance
continues: With a multiplicity of machines and devices the work is represented. In the
salt museum you find among other things a chronicle of the salt mine, historical tools and
lightnings, rocks and minerals and an earth tidal station. At an old
"Handgoepel" you come past over a second chute down there to that 100 x |
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With a raft you slide over the lake and arrive by a sparkling spring at the famous brine lifting machine of the royal upper mountain and saltworks advice George von Reichenbach from the year 1817. Now it continues to go with an inclined elevator uphill to a lug decorated with wonderful, old sinking factory boards and to the pit-train, which brings you in rapid travel back to the daylight. |
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