Bavarian–Austrian Salt Treaty

The Saline Convention (full name: Convention between Bavaria and Austria on mutual Saline ratios of 18 March 1829) represents a special feature of international law

What 600 years before the Wittelsbach Ludwig of Kelheim had agreed with the Salzburg Archbishop Eberhard II of Regensburg, in 1829 became caught in a written contract: the Saline main convention.

Bavaria acquired the irrevocable right to beat the Austrian Pinzgau wood for heating the Reichenhaller Brewhouse. Even today, farming Bavarian forester about 18,400 hectares of forest in the area between Leogang and toads that are officially designated as forests hall. Even with the approval of ski lifts or quarries talks Bavaria as a landowner a major say.

In return Halleiner miners dig at Duerrenberg deep below the border through on Bavarian territory of salt: a scheme that has since withstood the turmoil. Although the mines have been shut down in Salzburg in the 1980s and Bad Reichenhall no more wood needed to win from the brine salt, remains the 25th by the Agreement between the State of Bavaria and the Republic of Austria on the application of saline Convention of March 1957 revised contract to this day still valid.

In addition to these two important agreements further arrangements, including legal ones were taken in the Saline Convention; so for example, was determined how to proceed when an Austrian Bavarian Forest kills a fellow countryman or receive which residents of farms in the Bavarian region in the Austrian labor law pits guaranteed.