!!!Bad Dürrnberg

Bad Duerrnberg, province of Salzburg, district of Hallein, part of the 
municipal community of  Hallein, alt. 772 m, health resort since 
1954, old place of pilgrimage (veneration of the Virgin Mary), 
St. Josef hydropathic centre (sodium-calcium-chloride-sulphate 
spring), mountain station of the Salzbergbahn Hallein cable railway, 
mining museum, Celtic open-air museum (reconstruction of a homestead 
and a burial chamber), educational trail about Celtic culture; show 
mine, tourism. - The settlement on Duerrnberg Mountain (extending from 
Moserstein Mountain via today´s village centre to Ramsaukopf 
Mountain) ranks among the most important centres of Celtic culture in 
Europe. Salt mining was practised from the early  Iron Age, numerous 
pre-historic grave findings, e.g. a bronze flagon dating around 
400 B.C. (displayed in the Carolino Augusteum museum in the city 
of Salzburg,  Prehistory), Renaissance pilgrim church (1594-1612) 
built of red marble ashlars and containing a miraculous wooden image 
of the Mater Admirabilis (Virgin and Child, 1612). Tennengauer 
Einhoefe (one-building farmsteads where farm buildings and living unit 
are combined under one roof and are linked with connecting alleys, 
typical of the Tennengau region), skiing area Zinkenkogel Mountain.

!Literature
Die Kelten in Mitteleuropa, exhibition catalogue, Hallein 
1980; J. W. Neugebauer, Oe. Urzeit, 1990; Salz, exhibition 
catalogue, Hallein 1994; C. Brand, Zur eisenzeitlichen Besiedlung des 
Duerrnberges bei Hallein, 1995; U. Kammerhofer-Aggermann, Bergbau. 
Alltag und Identitaet der Duerrnberger Bergleute und Halleiner 
Salinenarbeiter in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 1998; G. Steiner, Salz 
als Attraktion. Der Duerrnberg in seiner Geschichte, 1998.


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