Hallein Salt Mine
The Hallein Salt Mine, also known as Salzbergwerk Dürrnberg, is an underground salt mine located in the Dürrnberg plateau above Hallein, Austria. The mine has been worked for over 2600 years since the time of the Celtic tribes and earlier.Photo: Lokomotiv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Email: info@salzwelten.at
- Type: Mine
- Description: salt mine
- Also known as: “Salzwelten Salzburg Hallein”
- Address: Ramsaustraße 3, Bad Duerrnberg, 5422
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Pfarr- und Wallfahrtskirche Dürrnberg and Volksschule Dürrnberg.
Pfarr- und Wallfahrtskirche Dürrnberg
Church
Pfarr- und Wallfahrtskirche Dürrnberg is a church, which is situated 160 metres south of Hallein Salt Mine.
Volksschule Dürrnberg
School building
Volksschule Dürrnberg is a school building, which is situated 230 metres south of Hallein Salt Mine.
Cement kiln
Historic building
Photo: Austriantraveler, CC BY-SA 3.0 at.
Cement kiln is a historic building, which is situated 1¼ km east of Hallein Salt Mine.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Adnet and Obersalzberg.
Adnet
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Adnet is a town in the district of Hallein, in the Austrian state of Salzburg. It is famous for its marble and there is a marble museum in the middle of the town. Adnet is situated 4½ km northeast of Hallein Salt Mine.
Obersalzberg
Locality
Photo: Tobi85, Public domain.
Obersalzberg is a mountainside retreat situated above the market town of Berchtesgaden in Bavaria, Germany. Located about 120 kilometres south-east of Munich, close to the border with Austria, it is best known as the site of Adolf Hitler's former mountain residence, the Berghof, and of the mountaintop Kehlsteinhaus, popularly known in the English-speaking world as the "Eagle's Nest". Obersalzberg is situated 5 km southwest of Hallein Salt Mine.
Berchtesgaden
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Berchtesgaden is a small, picturesque and historic town in the southeast of the German state of Bavaria, within a small enclave surrounded on three sides by the Austrian border.
Hallein Salt Mine
- Categories: show mine, salt mine, historic site, and industry
- Location: Hallein, Hallein District, Salzburg, Austria, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.66698° or 47° 40′ 1″ northLongitude
13.09018° or 13° 5′ 25″ eastOperator
Salzwelten GmbHOpen location code
8FVMM38R+Q3OpenStreetMap ID
way 174091546OpenStreetMap feature
historic=mineWikidata ID
Q205354
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Slovenian—“Hallein Salt Mine” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Saltbjergværket Hallein”
- Dutch: “Hallein Salt Mine”
- French: “mine d’Hallein”
- French: “Mine d’Hallein”
- German: “Salzbergwerk Dürrnberg”
- German: “Salzbergwerk Hallein”
- German: “Salzwelten Hallein”
- Italian: “Miniere di sale di Dürrnberg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saltgruven i Hallein”
- Slovenian: “Rudnik soli Hallein”
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Highlights include Keltendorf Spielplatz and Liebfrauenbründl.
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