Jax Stumpes: Reit im Winkl and Bad Reichenhall (7/4/2019)

Thursday, July 4, 2019

Reit im Winkl and Bad Reichenhall (7/4/2019)

Thursday, July 4, 2019 (continued)
Back on the Alpenstrasse/Alpine Road to head south to Reit im Winkl, a charming town in a Winkel/corner of Germany close to Austria.

Reit im Winkl Maypole

Meadows in the distance for grazing cows, as this area is known
for Heumilch/milk from cows fed exclusively on hay pastures, and
Reiberdatschi (grated potatoes mixed with a little egg and flour,
then poured as a flat mass into a skillet and fried)

Rathausplatz/Town Hall Square with carved wooden
fountain and statue of a Holzfäller/Woodcutter

Landhaus/Country House Lenzenhof, the third restaurant where
we tried to find Reiberdatschi, but no luck; a woman at a bakery
stated that if that restaurant did not have it, it would be difficult to find

We did not have time to keep wandering around to find and taste this dish, so disappointed, we continued onward.

Mittelsee/Middle Lake in the Drei-Seen-Gebiet/Three Lakes Region

Arrived in Bad Reichenhall, a town that in 1890 was given the title Bad/Baths or Spa by royal decree. In 1899 it became the official state baths/spa for the state of Bavaria.

Alte Saline/Old Salt Works (1837, by Joseph Daniel Ohlmüller and
Friedrich von Schenk on order of Ludwig I), former royal salt works
with brine springs and tunnel system; considered the most beautiful
salt works building in the world

In the N courtyard is a fountain with a statue of
St Rupert, who, legend says, came to this area and was
shown the spot where a salt well once stood, but no longer
could be found; Rupert struck a rock with his Bishop's
staff, and brine bubbled out once again to become the
source of salt and Bad Reichenhall's livelihood

Florianiplatz with a fountain (1880) and statue of St Florian, patron saint
of firefighters, who protected this district during the fire of 1834

Hallosbrunnen/Hallos Fountain (1979, by Alfred Essler);
not sure who Hallos is, but with him are two Naiads
(who preside over fresh water)

Gradierhaus/the world's largest open-air alpine
inhalation structure (1910-1912, by Eugen Drollinger)

Brine (26% salt) is mixed with water for a 5% solution that is pumped to the
top of the building where it is allowed to trickle over the side of the walls
(made of blackthorn twigs/branches) that receives the blowing wind;
much of the water is evaporated but the wind releases salt particles for
one to breathe (on the opposite side from the wind) for health purposes

The brine trickles into a catch basin

The Kurpark/Spa Park

Bad Reichenhall Konzertrotunde/Concert Rotunda
(1912, by Eugen Drollinger)

Sculpture (2014, by Walter Angerer the Younger)
of Richard Wagner, who visited one time

Another look at the 160 m/525' long, 13 m/43' high Gradierhaus

Berchtesgadener Alpen/Berchtesgaden Alps,
perhaps Watzmann Mountain, from Ramsau

Arrived in Berchtesgaden, but drove to the end of the Alpenstrasse/Alpine Road in Schönau am Königssee. The road itself ended in a giant parking lot, and things were closed for the day.