Alte Saline (old salt refinery)

former Townhall

Bad Reichenhall is a spa town, and administrative center of the Berchtesgadener Land district in Upper Bavaria, Germany. It is located near Salzburg in a basin encircled by the Chiemgauer Alps (including Mount Staufen (1771 m) and Mount Zwiesel (1781m)). Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 878 KB) Alte Saline in Bad Reichenhall camera model: Olympus C2000z aperture: F/4. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 878 KB) Alte Saline in Bad Reichenhall camera model: Olympus C2000z aperture: F/4. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Bad_Reichenhall_Altes_Rathaus. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Bad_Reichenhall_Altes_Rathaus. ... Germany is a federal republic made up of 16 states, known in German as Länder (singular Land). ... The Free State of Bavaria  (German: Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ... A Regierungsbezirk is an administrative region of Germany, a subdivision of certain federal states (Bundesländer). ... Oberbayern (Upper Bavaria) is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany, located in the south of Bavaria, around the city Munich. ... There are 439 German districts, administrative units in Germany. ... Berchtesgadener Land is a district in Bavaria, Germany. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... hi mom ... A number plate may be: A road vehicle license plate. ... A mayor (from the Latin maÄ«or, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... FWG may stand for: Forschungsanstalt der Bundeswehr für Wasserschall und Geophysik (Federal Armed Forces Underwater Acoustic and Marine Geophysics Research Institute), in Germany. ... A spa town is a town frequented, in times past, for health reasons, to take the waters. The name derives from the Belgian town Spa, and in continental Europe, a spa was known as a ville deau (town of water). ... Berchtesgadener Land is a district in Bavaria, Germany. ... Oberbayern (Upper Bavaria) is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany, located in the south of Bavaria, around the city Munich. ... Flag of Salzburg Salzburg (population 145,000 in 2003) is a city in western Austria and the capital of the federal state of Salzburg (population 520,000 in 2003). ...

Bad Reichenhall is a traditional center of salt production, obtained by evaporating water saturated with salt from brine ponds. Salt Crystals (http://www. ... Brine is water saturated or nearly saturated with salt. ...

It was the site of a disaster on January 2, 2006, when the roof of the town's ice rink collapsed under snow, killing 15 and injuring 34 others. January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rockefeller Centre ice rink An ice rink is a frozen body of water where people can ice skate or play winter sports. ...

History

• The earliest known inhabitants are tribes of the Glockenbecher-Culture (a Bronze Age Cultue, about 2000 B.C.)
• In the age of the La Tene culture (about 450 B.C.) an well organized salt production is established, a celtic place of worship is placed at the "Langacker"
• 15 B.C - 480 city in the roman province Noricum
• 1136: founding of monastery St. Zeno
• In 1617-1619 a wooden (brine) pipeline to Traunstein is build (length 31 km, more than 200m altitude difference).
• 2/3 of the buildings are destroyed by the major fire of 1834
• early 19th century: beginning tourism, Reichenhall becomes a famous health resort
• 1890 Reichenhall is now called "Bad Reichenhall"
• 1945 bombing of allied forces, following World War II it was for a period under American military government (1945-1948)

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Ice rink disaster

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Main article: Bad Reichenhall ice rink roof collapse

Fifteen people, nine of them children, died in the collapse of the Bad Reichenhall ice rink on 2 January 2006. Thirty-four people were injured in the accident [1]. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... To suggest a relevant news story for the main page, refer to the criteria then add your suggestion at the candidates page. ... On January 2, 2006, the roof a 1970s-built ice rink collapsed under the weight of recent heavy snowfall in the town of Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, Germany, near the Austrian border, trapping 50 underneath the rubble. ... January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Famous people from Bad Reichenhall

• Michael Neumayer
• Anna Christina Friesinger
• Regina Häusl
• Georg Ringsgwandl
• Hans Söllner
• Stefan Holzner

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External link

• Bad Reichenhall Touristic Center

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