Bad Salzdetfurth is a municipality in Lower Saxony with a population of 16,000. Apart from the town, the municipality also includes twelve smaller localities (German Ortsteile – districts) that, since 1974, make up the joint town structure. The town, as with Bochnia, has certain mining traditions. It was the development of salt and potash mining that caused smaller municipalities to merge into one town. The mine in Bad Salzdetfurth has a tradition of over 100 years. About a dozen years ago it was closed due to being unprofitable. The surface part of the mine was converted to a health resort with spa gardens, graduation tower, and a complex of brine and thermal pools.
The history of Bad Salzdetfurth is significantly longer than that of the mine. The locality was first mentioned in 1194. The town and its region were flooded a number of times. The most severe, in 1738, devastated 176 houses.
The word Bad in German refers to a health resort, a bathhouse, a spa. The word was added to the name Salzdetfurth in 1921 when the town was granted sanatorium status.
The town was officially granted town privileges in 1949. Since 1987 there has been a museum dedicated, mostly, to the history of the mine and salt mining.
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Stadt Bad Salzdetfurth
Postfach 1120
31158 Bad Salzdetfurth
Germany
http://www.bad-salzdetfurth.de/
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