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A salt road (also known as a salt route, salt way, saltway, ... The Old Salt Route, about 100 kilometres (62 mi), was a medieval route in northern Germany, ...
The Theatinerstraße–Weinstraße is part of the north-south medieval trade route, which existed at the time of the city's founding in the 12th century and crossed the salt road at Marienplatz in an east-west direction. The transition from the Weinstraße to the Theatinerstraße marks the border of the medieval so-called Heinrichsstadt.
Map: Old Salt Route. The Old Salt Route was a medieval trade route in Northern Germany, one of the ancient network of salt roads which were used primarily for the transport of salt and other staples. In Germany it was referred to as Alte Salzstraße. Salt was very valuable and essential at that time; it was sometimes referred to as "white gold."
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.
The High Land Road (also Army Road or Salt Road) lat. via regia Lusatiae superioris , or strata regia , was a trade route and was one of the Ancient roads . It was a part of the Via Regia , which continued west as far as the Rhine .
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.
Lüneburg's salt was in great demand and the town quickly became one of the wealthiest and most important towns in the Hanseatic League, together with Bergen and Visby (the fish suppliers) and Lübeck (the central trading post between the Baltic and the interior). In the Middle Ages salt was initially conveyed overland up the Old Salt Road to
The snow continued in to the 9th and the UK almost ran out of road salt, rock salt, [58] table salt and road grit supplies due to the heavy demand from various agencies and local government bodies. [59] By January 7, 2010, twenty-two people had officially died in the UK because of the freezing conditions. [40]