Kingdom of Salt. 7.000 years of history in Hallstatt

Hallstatt is a small village in the heart of the Austrian Alps, It is located on the shores of the Lake Hallstatter See, at the foot of the Alps. Since time immemorial its existence was linked to the exploitation of the rock salt mines in these mountains that had continued over the centuries. However has been its archaeological importance to European prehistory which has brought worldwide fame and notoriety to Hallstatt, and had made it deserving of its declaration as World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1997.
- Year of Production: 2013.
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[@datelane]

So, it's a pro-Austrian/Viennese documentary produced by Valencians for the Spanish and English speaking markets...very impressive and proto-European...good introduction on this very early culture

[@kukolino]

Mozart was born in Salzburg, and Beethoven in Bonn Germany, he died in Vienna !!

[@seekter-kafa]

i could watch such documentaries for days... unfortunately they are so rare nowadays... great topic and presentation

[@eedobee]

Tf are you talking about.

[@GeDruchy]

@16:56 he just kind of forgets its a documentory about salt and launches into the vienna tourmism spiele

[@drquinley]

This almost turns into something of a documentary on Vienna toward the end. Very odd.

[@Uschigitana]

" Vienna , the birthplace of Beethoven " ? Not so !

[@drquinley]

Not the birthplace of Mozart either. They both died there, though.

[@BrettonFerguson]

Hallstadt does not mean the "place of salt" in German. Hall is old Celtic for Salt, not German. Stadt means city in German. So it means city of salt, but only half the word is German. The documentary even said Hall was a Celtic word less than a minute before they contradicted themselves and said it meant salt in German.

[@ezzovonachalm9815]

@BrettonFerguson Statt < german Stätte : the place,Fr l' endroit, it il posto. The 5000 years old Hallstatt civilisation precedes the intrusion of indoeuropean hordes by millenia, and did not expect the arrival of Kelts to name their salt place. Please stop placing bloody Celts overall. ( bloody because they lived of razzias, plundering, massacres and destructions like autentic parasites of established civilisations. The Hallstatt culture has really nothing in common with analphabet totally uncultured Celtic killers that plundered and destroyed the occidental Sanctuary of Delos !

[@ezzovonachalm9815]

Hal is clearly a pre- celtic designation of salt also found in greek.Do You seriously believe that the prestigious Hallstatt culture has waited the emergence of celtic abalphabets to name their 5000 years old place of salt ?

[@MaryMahoneyB-Well]

My family has a salt mined in Ireland. I’m interested to know the history about the salt in Ireland.

[@redwanhossain7563]

2days ago i was there

[@thomasslone1964]

i don't speak Spanish, English subtitles pls

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

Salt and oil the best preservatives

[@GizmoFromPizmo]

The ancient salt miners were probably rich because everybody wanted this product.

[@ja_pocitacove_hry_nehraji69]

great

[@Zetcaq]

The translation of the English guy by the youtube autotranslate is horrible and slightly hillarious.Also I wanted to see this video for it's probable conections of the Hallstatt culture, not 5 minutes of pictures of Vienna ...

[@tubensalat1453]

I'll have to disagree: the autotranslate of the Austrian professor is not slightly hilarious, it is extremely hilarious; totally senseless gibberish. And yes, that Vienna tourism promotion was totally off.

[@aedilanigiro]

Mozart was born in Salzburg

[@eedobee]

Salt is not a liquid state in water, it is aqueous. That’s very different.

[@judithm375]

In places there was no English translation. It seems that Hallstatt is in danger from forces of nature - as I'm not good at languages I may have got that wrong. Does anyone know what was being said in German?

[@DesireeLourensArtist]

The subtitles I think were Spanish, I speak Italian, not Spanish, but what I understood is that it is a natural disaster/climate change related.

[@judithm375]

Thank you.

[@JojoooJK]

I know I'm very late but maybe someone still wants to know. It's not so much about a natural catastophe but rather the fact that the mountain is constantly moving (which is by the way because of the movement of the continental plates etc.). Because of that movement, the so called "Bergdruck" which means literally "mountain pressure" the remains of prehistoric mining move with the mountain and will be destroyed in the long term and the longer you wait the harder it will get to actually know how it really was done back then because the traces will kinda fade away. I hope this makes sense in english...

[@judithm375]

Thanks, Bloody Vampire. That's good to know. The earth is far less stable than we think of it as being, or at least than I think of it as being. It's good that so much of value has survived from around Hallstadt.

[@JojoooJK]

@@judithm375 It is quite fascinating to me personally because I know this mine very well. The moutain there moves up to 1cm per year at some points which is quite a lot if you think about it. So to keep the mines open, the walls need to be scratched off every few years because of that. That's also challenging for the archaeologists of course.

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

That you find in the greek islands

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

The greeks wrote about the place Very old 10000 bc

[@tomdetemmerman878]

And the old Italian people , later Romans traded with these people , so the Celts became the masters of Europe

[@eedobee]

Nobody was writing anything 12,000 years ago

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

@@eedobee they have writings till today About the trips climate

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

The figurine

[@m.h.s.9059]

mozart is not born in vienna, he is born in salzburg

[@GizmoFromPizmo]

😆 The German speaker had subtitles in an unknown language. Not helpful 😆

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

They were not going around naked

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

I have been to insbruk not vienna

[@Exodus26.13Pi]

9 minutes of content starts 4:22.

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

Those are other people Vikings

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

Atenea

[@alexzabala2154]

Boooooooorrrriiiing

[@hendexlendex740]

Alex Zabala Then why do you watch it?