Production site of the smallest salt works in Germany
This is the production site of the smallest salt works in Germany. In the center of the building is a show boiling plant, the only one of its kind in Germany. The boiling pan measures 1.50 m x 1.50 m and is 0.15 m deep, which corresponds to the late medieval models of pans from the Groß Salzer salt works. The construction of the hearth is also very similar to the original.
However, many things cannot simply be transformed from the Middle Ages into the present, e.g. the brine is stimulated to crystallize with the help of natural gas instead of wood. What remains, however, are the traditions of the mysterious additives to the brine to obtain snow-white salt. You can learn the secrets of the art of boiling during a tour of the "Kunsthof Bad Salzelmen". You can see for yourself that Schönebeck evaporated salt is really being produced again on the show days.
At the boiling pan, visitors are shown how the natural pan salt is extracted from the Bad Salzelmen brine. In the brine tower and at the Viktoria spring, interesting details about the development of the brine springs in Bad Salzelmen are explained. Visitors can experience the extraction of the raw brine and use their own muscle power to set the old wave tree and the wooden cogwheel in motion. At what was once the longest graduation tower in Europe, of which 300 meters are still preserved, visitors can learn about the construction and operation of the striking structure, which they can also climb.
Schausiedehaus, tower, photo: CC BY-SA, Magdeburger Tourismusverband Elbe-Börde-Heide e.V.
Schausieden, Photo: CC BY-SA, Magdeburger Tourismusverband Elbe-Börde-Heide e.V.
