!!!Berchtesgadener Land

Berchtesgadener Land, a small region in the high Salzburg Limestone 
Alps surrounding the old salt town of Berchtesgaden and Lake 
Koenigssee; former provost's district directly subordinate to the 
emperor and belonging to the archbishopric of Salzburg, by which it 
was surrounded on almost all sides; became part of Salzburg in 1803 
and as part of Salzburg was integrated into Austrian territory in 
1805, separated from Salzburg and Austria and ceded to Bavaria in 
1809. The final determination of the border between 1814-1816 
confirmed the separation from Salzburg. The Berghof chalet in the 
Berchtesgadener Land was, the scene of talks between K. Schuschnigg 
and Hitler on February 12, 1938. The result of these talks was an 
agreement that preluded the  Anschluss of Austria to Germany. 75 % of 
the region is surrounded by Austrian territory. In order to facilitate 
road transit between Salzburg and Lofer, a German-Austrian agreement 
was concluded in 1957 for the connecting road popularly referred to as 
the "Kleines deutsches Eck", i.e. "little German corner".


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