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  2. Wieliczka Salt Mine - Wikipedia

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    The Wieliczka Salt Mine ( Polish: Kopalnia soli Wieliczka) is a salt mine in the town of Wieliczka, near Kraków in southern Poland . From Neolithic times, sodium chloride ( table salt) was produced there from the upwelling brine. The Wieliczka salt mine, excavated from the 13th century, produced table salt continuously until 1996, [ 2] as one ...

  3. Salt mining - Wikipedia

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    Diorama of an underground salt mine in Germany. Inside Salina Veche, in Slănic, Prahova, Romania.The railing (lower middle) gives the viewer an idea of scale. Before the advent of the modern internal combustion engine and earth-moving equipment, mining salt was one of the most expensive and dangerous of operations because of rapid dehydration caused by constant contact with the salt (both in ...

  4. Hallein Salt Mine - Wikipedia

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    Entrance to 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. It helped ensure nearby Salzburg would become a powerful trading community.

  5. Salzbergwerk Berchtesgaden - Wikipedia

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    Headquarters. Bergwerkstraße 83, D-83471 Berchtesgaden. , Germany. Website. www .salzbergwerk .de /en. Salzbergwerk Berchtesgaden - types of salt. Salzbergwerk Berchtesgaden is the oldest active salt mine in Germany, in which salt is mainly extracted in the wet, and also a showcase in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria .

  6. Nazi storage sites for art during World War II - Wikipedia

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    Other sites. Neuschwanstein Castle where many plundered art works were stored by the Nazis during World War II. The Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria was used to store many artworks on the assumption that it was unlikely to sustain damage in war. It housed art confiscated from Parisian Jews—more than 21,000 objects [9] —and about 2,000 works ...

  7. Salina Turda - Wikipedia

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    Salina Turda. Coordinates: 46.5877084°N 23.7873963°E. Rudolf hall is 80 m long, 50 m wide and 40 m high. [ 1] Salina Turda is a salt mine in the Durgău-Valea Sărată area of Turda, the second largest city in Cluj County, northwest Transylvania. Opened for tourists in 1992, the Salina Turda mine was visited by about 618,000 Romanian and ...

  8. History of salt - Wikipedia

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    Salt, also referred to as table salt or by its chemical formula NaCl (sodium chloride), is an ionic compound made of sodium and chloride ions. All life depends on its chemical properties to survive. It has been used by humans for thousands of years, from food preservation to seasoning. Salt's ability to preserve food was a founding contributor ...

  9. Lüneburg Saltworks - Wikipedia

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    Lüneburg Saltworks. The Lüneburg Saltworks ( German: Lüneburger Saline) was a salt mine in the German town of Lüneburg that extracted salt. According to legend, a hunter killed a wild boar whose coat was snow-white from crystallised salt. The sow must have wallowed in a salt spring and so the first source of salt was discovered in Lüneburg ...