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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. It helped ensure nearby Salzburg would become a powerful trading community.
Fun, fascination and mystical moments await visitors to the Salzburg salt mine. In addition to intriguing information about the arduous work done by miners in the past, visitors, big and small, will explore in the footsteps of the Ancient Celts, who were already mining salt here back in 400 BC.
- Ramsaustraße 3, Bad Dürrnberg, 5422, AT
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For more than 450 years: the world’s oldest showcase salt mine. It was all the way back in the year 1607 that the first guests were admitted to the tunnels of the salt mine outside Hallein. Which makes it the very first salt mine in the world to open its doors to the public.
The Hallstatt salt mine is the world's oldest working salt mine. The mine is located within the Upper Permian to Lower Triassic Haselgebirge Formation of the Northern Limestone Alps . The Hallstatt salt mine comprises 21 levels and several smaller shafts ranging from 514 metres (1,686 ft) above sea level (Erbstollen level) to an elevation of ...
Inside the mine and in the Hallstatt high valley, set out on a journey through 7000 years of salt mining history. Step out onto the Skywalk to look across UNESCO World Heritage Hallstatt from 360 m above ground.
You can visit one of the oldest salt mines in the world at Hallein near Salzburg. Its salt provided a livelihood for local people, brought riches to the archbishops, and built the magnificent city of Salzburg we admire today.
There is a lot more to see in this tiny village with 750 inhabitants: the salt mines, of course, the Celtic burial grounds, the prehistoric museum and the world’s oldest pipeline, which was used to transport salt brine to the village of Ebensee and consisted of 13,000 hollow tree trunks.
