Old Salt Route

This Old Salt Road is an ancient trade route between Lüneburg and Lübeck.

History

The significance of this old salt road as part of the formerly most important north -south connection in Germany dates back to the early historical period. The greatest importance, however, they gained from the 12th to the 16th century.

At the time of the Hanseatic large parts of the Lüneburg salt were exported to the Baltic region into the basis for the herring trade. The main customer was the herring market in Falsterbo in Skåne. Main hub in the salt trade was there Lübeck, the capital of the Hanseatic League and then as now the most important Baltic port. There, the salt was stored in the salt stores are still preserved today. About the Old Salt Road, the salt was transported loose or in tonnes freight cars.

With the Stecknitz channel completion in 1398, the transport shifted to the waterway, ie Ilmenau, Elbe, the Stecknitz Canal and the River Trave.

The Old Salt Road left Lüneburg today Lüner road and the Neubrücker gate and walked across the Stintfang, the old fish market at the Ilmenau harbor. Over the river and the Werder led them on Lüne past the convent after Adendorf and Brietlingen where they left the Lüneburg Landwehr. About Lüdershausen and a ferry across the Neetze it extended to Artlenburg where they have the same crossed by a ford and a ferry. The Elbe crossing the Old Salt Route of Artlenburg after Schnakenbek were secured in the 11th and 12th centuries by the Ertheneburg, which was set in 1181 by Henry the Lion in his flight before Emperor Frederick Barbarossa on fire. For a long time there was only the transition to a customs station here today is no longer Elbe crossing.

The further course of the road stretched from Schnakenbek between Krüzen and Juliusburg through after Lütau, Wangelau, Pötrau ( Büchenberg ), Seven Oaks and Roseburg. From Roseburg, he led over Hornbek, Wolter village and width of the field to the fortress of Mölln where the Stecknitz channel crosses the cock Burger Schleusenhaus and the city was reached by the stone gate. Today more distance along the B 207 via Fredeburg to Ratzeburg was to the 17th century by only minor importance. In the Middle Ages, the salt road led through a 62 -meter-long bridge, which no longer exists today, on the city lake and the water gate beyond the former convent Marie Wohlde, red field, the Absfelder mountain after Behlendorf. From here, it led down to Hollenbek over the same river by Berkenthin to Krummesse. Here they reached the Lübeck Landwehr and passed through Rothebek into the city.

Holiday road

Today we denote by Old Salt Road Holiday Road " Old Salt Road ", during which the Federal Highway 209 from Lüneburg Lauenburg to Schwarzenbek and then the main road 207 follows on Mölln and Frede castle along the Ratzeburger towards Lübeck. Guides you through the Lauenburg Lakes Nature Park and has only a few common waypoints with the historic route.

Radfernweg Old Salt Road

Mostly along the Elbe- Lübeck canal leads the approximately 90 -kilometer cycle path Old Salt Road of Lüneburg in Lower Saxony to Lübeck in Schleswig -Holstein.