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Berchtesgaden

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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a town of Germany, beautifully situated on the south-eastern confines of the kingdom of Bavaria, 1700 ft. above the sea on the southern declivity of the Untersberg, 6 m. S.S.E. from Reichenhall by rail. Pop. (1900) 10,046. It is celebrated for its extensive mines of rock-salt, which were worked as early as 1174. The town contains three old churches, of which the early Gothic abbey church with its Romanesque cloister is most notable, and some good houses. Apart from the salt-mines, its industries include toys and other small articles of wood, horn and ivory, for which the place has long been famous. The district of Berchtesgaden was formerly an independent spiritual principality, founded in ltoo and secularized in 1803. The abbey is now a royal castle, and in the neighbourhtood a hunting-lodge was built by King Maximilian II. in 1852.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Berchtesgaden'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​b/berchtesgaden.html. 1910.
 
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