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REICHENHALL

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 49 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REICHENHALL , a See also:

town and watering-See also:place in the See also:kingdom of See also:Bavaria, finely situated in an See also:amphitheatre of lofty mountains, on the See also:river Saalach, 1570 ft. above See also:sea-level, 9 m. S.W. of See also:Salzburg. Pop. (1900) 4927, excluding visitors. Reichenhall possesses several copious saline springs, producing about 85oo tons of See also:salt per annum. The See also:water of some of the springs, the See also:sources of which are 5o ft. below the See also:surface, is so strongly saturated with salt (up to 24%) that it is at once conducted to the boiling houses, while that of the others is first submitted to a See also:process of evaporation. Reichenhall is the centre of the four See also:chief Bavarian salt-See also:works, which are connected with each other by brine conduits having an aggregate length of 6o m. The surplus brine of See also:Berchtesgaden is conducted to Reichenhall, and thence, in increased See also:volume, to See also:Traunstein and See also:Rosenheim, which possess larger supplies of See also:timber for use as See also:fuel in the process of boiling. Since 1846 Reichenhall has become one of the most fashionable spas and See also:climatic See also:health resorts in See also:Germany, and it is now visited annually by about ten thousand patients, besides many thousand passing tourists. The saline springs are used both for drinking and bathing, and are said to be efficacious in See also:scrofula and incipient See also:tuberculosis. The brine springs of Reichenhall are mentioned in a document of the 8th See also:century and were perhaps known to the See also:Romans; but almost all trace of antiquity of the town was destroyed by a conflagration in 1834. The brine conduit to Traunstein See also:dates from 1618.

The environs abound in numerous charming Alpine excursions. See G. von See also:

Liebig, Reichenhall, sein Klima and See also:seine Heilmitiel (6th ed., Reichenhall, 1889) ; and See also:Goldschmidt, Der transits See also:Bad Reichenhall and seine Umgebung (See also:Vienna, 1892).

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