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Soaring Peaks and Idyllic Lakes: Beer Hiking Around Berchtesgaden

Soaring Peaks and Idyllic Lakes: Beer Hiking Around Berchtesgaden

  The Alps of Southeastern Bavaria Berchtesgadener Land was once coveted for the wealth of its salt. As the salt trade waned over the course of the nineteenth century, interest in southeastern Bavaria’s spectacular scenery grew. It was a time when Europeans discovered a new 

Berchtesgaden and the Königssee: Alpine Breweries and Lakeside Beer Gardens

Berchtesgaden and the Königssee: Alpine Breweries and Lakeside Beer Gardens

  Salt was once white gold in the region spanning southern Bavaria and northern Austria. Like Salzburg and Hallstatt, like Bad Reichenhall and Traunstein, Berchtesgaden was built on a mountain of revenue from the salt trade. Founded in 1102 as an Augustine monastery and raised