Bad Reichenhall

• The earliest known inhabitants of the area were tribes of the Glockenbecher-Culture (a Bronze Age Culture, from about 2000 B.C.)
• In the age of the La Tene culture (about 450 B.C.) organised salt production commenced utilising the local brine pools. In the same period a Celtic place of worship is placed at the "Langacker".
• From 15 B.C to 480 A.D, the city was part of a Roman province, Noricum.
• 1136 A.D bought the founding of a monastery St. Zeno.
• In 1617–1619, a wooden pipeline for brine exportation to Traunstein was built, with a length of 31 km, and more than 200 m in altitude difference.
• In 1834, two thirds of the city's buildings were destroyed by a major fire.
• The early 19th century saw the beginning of tourism, with Reichenhall becoming a famous health resort.
• From 1890 Reichenhall became known as "Bad Reichenhall".
• During World War II the area was bombed by Allied forces, killing 200 people on 25 April 1945. The town centre with many hospitals and the train station was nearly totally destroyed; the barracks did not suffer any damage. After the war the area was under American military governance (1945–1948).
• After World War II, the Americans established a Displaced Persons camp in the town, where Holocaust survivors lived for several years before immigrating to other countries.
• In 1947, Ben Gurion visited the DP camp, and saw the artworks created by Samuel Bak, one of the Holocaust survivors living at the camp.
• On 1 November 1999, 16-year-old Martin Peyerl shot at people in the streets from his bedroom window, killing three and wounding several others, among them actor Günter Lamprecht. He finally committed suicide after fatally shooting his sister and the family cat.
• In 2001 Bad Reichenhall was named Alpine Town of the Year and a few years later became a member of Alpine Pearls. Website [https://www.alpine-pearls.com/reiseziele/deutschland/bad-reichenhall/] from alpine-pearls.com

{{Main article|Bad Reichenhall Ice Rink roof collapse}}

Fifteen people, twelve of them children, died in the collapse of the Bad Reichenhall Ice Rink on 2 January 2006. Thirty-four people were injured in the accident.{{cite web|url = https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/germany-roof-collapse/ |date = 2006 |title = Germany Roof Collapse|website = CBS News }}

• Anni Friesinger-Postma (born 1977), German speed skater (born in Bad Reichenhall, lived in Inzell ~10 km away and now lives in Salzburg)
• Johannes Frießner (1892–1971), World War II German Army general
• Lore Frisch, well known German actress in the 1940s and 1950s. Moved from Traunstein to Bad Reichenhall in the mid-1930s and got her start in acting in Bad Reichenhall before becoming famous in Munich and Berlin.
• Hermann Gassner Jr (* 1988), rally driver
• Walter Grabmann (1905–1992), German World War II Luftwaffe General
• Barbara Gruber, ski mountaineer
• Regina Häusl, alpine skier (born in Bad Reichenhall, started for the Ski-Klub Bad Reichenhall, lives in Schneizlreuth since her birth)
• Andreas Hinterstoisser (1914–1936), German mountaineer
• Andreas Hofer (composer), composer (1629–1684)
• Michael Neumayer, (* 1979), ski jumper
• Georg Nickaes, (* 1971), ski mountaineer
• Franz Oberwinkler, (1939–2018), mycologist, expert on Heterobasidiomycetes
• Philipp Öttl (born 1996), World Super Bikes motorcycle racer for Team GoEleven{{cite web | url=https://www.worldsbk.com/en/rider/Philipp+Oettl/3976 | title=WorldSBK }}
• Martin Peyerl (1983-1999), German mass murderer
• Günther Rall (1918–2009), World War II Luftwaffe ace, postwar Luftwaffe general
• Gerd Rasp (born 1960), physician of otorhinolaryngology
• Peter Schreyer, (* 1953), car designer
• Hans Söllner, (* 1955), singer-songwriter
• Walter F. Tichy, (* 1952), computer scientist, initial developer of the RCS revision control system
• Karl Ullrich (1910–1996), SS Oberführer

Lattengebirge.jpg|View from above

REI Alte Saline 01.jpg|Alte Saline (old saltworks)

REI Ruine Karlstein 06.jpg|Karlstein castle ruins

REI NonnerK 03.jpg|St. George's church

REI Pulverturm 01.jpg|Powder tower

REI Pankrazkirche 07.jpg|St. Pancras church at night

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• [https://www.stadt-bad-reichenhall.de City of Bad Reichenhall] (in German)
• [https://www.bad-reichenhall.de Bad Reichenhall Tourist Centre] (in German)
• [https://www.alpine-pearls.com/ Alpine Pearls]
• [https://www.salzbergwerk.de/de/salzbergwerk/geschichte History Salt Mine] (in German)
• [https://www.reichenhallmuseum.de/startseite Museum] (in German)
• [https://alphaus.immo/ AlpHaus Immobilien] (in German)
• [https://www.stadt-bad-reichenhall.de/kultur-bildung/buechereien Library] (in German)

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