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Bavaria
About 5 miles away
Königssee's fjord-like lake, and Hitler's mountaintop retreat.
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Hallein Salt Mine
The salt mine that made Salzburg rich, with miners' slides, a raft across an underground lake and a crossing into Germany underground.
- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- Half a day
- Address
- Ramsaustrasse 3, 5422 Bad DürrnbergDirections
- Getting There
- Train to Hallein, about 25 minutes, then bus 41 up to the mine.
Why Go
Salt has been mined in the Dürrnberg above Hallein since Celtic times, and it paid for the archbishops' Salzburg. Visitors put on miners' overalls, ride a mine train, slide down wooden chutes and cross a salt lake on a raft.
A rebuilt Celtic village stands beside the mine, and the Celtic Museum in Hallein shows finds from the area.
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