Berchtesgaden

Berchtesgaden, a village of Bavaria, charmingly situated on a mountain-slope, about 15 miles S. of Salzburg. Its abbey is now a royal castle, and in the neighbourhood is a royal hunting-lodge. The place is most remarkable for its government salt-mines, from which 150,000 cwt. of rock-salt are annually obtained. Fresh water being introduced to the mine, it is run off as brine into a reservoir, and afterwards conducted to Traunstein and Rosenheim, about 40 miles distant. Pop. 2197, mostly Catholics.