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The Salt Way is managed by the Salt Way Activity Group. [4] The Vienna Road, later also known as Southern Railway (Austria) that succeeded the road as a railway connection between Vienna and Trieste, was a salt road connecting the two cities via Graz, Maribor and Ljubljana.
Landsberg is situated on the Romantic Road and is the center of the Lechrain region, the boundary region between Swabia and Bavaria. It is noted for its picturesque historic center. Landsberg am Lech developed where a major historic salt road crossed over the Lech.
Today's Bundesstraße 304 roughly follows the route of the old salt road, which led from Salzburg and Bad Reichenhall via Wasserburg am Inn, in the direction of Munich and on to Augsburg, and which was used to transport goods. Later, a stagecoach service connected Munich with Vienna. [1]
Karlstor in Munich (called Neuhauser Tor until 1791) [1] is a medieval city gate, which served as a defensive fortification and a checkpoint. [ 2 ] It is located at the western end of Neuhauser Straße , a portion of Munich's down-town pedestrian zone, which was part of the salt road and the east–west thoroughfare of the historic old town.
Memmingen was linked to Bohemia, Austria and Munich by the salt road to Lindau. Another important route through Memmingen was the Italian road from Northern Germany to Switzerland and Italy. Both roads helped Memmingen gain importance as a trading centre.
Berchtesgaden (German pronunciation: [ˈbɛʁçtəsˌɡaːdn̩]) is a municipality in the district Berchtesgadener Land, Bavaria, in southeastern Germany, near the border with Austria, 30 km (19 mi) south of Salzburg and 180 km (110 mi) southeast of Munich.
The town of Schongau is located very close to the former Roman road to Augsburg, Via Claudia Augusta (47 AD), and gets its name from the Romans. In the Middle Ages, it was an important hub and commercial centre on the Verona-Augsburg-Nuremberg route and on the salt road from Berchtesgadener Land into the Allgäu.
Marien figure of the Pasinger Mariensäule. Modeled after the Munich Marienplatzes, the intersection of the historic river-accompanying main street, (now: Planegger Straße), [1] with the east–west direction extending, former ducal salt road (now: Landsbergerstraße and Bodenseestraße), was named Marienplatz.