Bad Salzelmen

Bad Salzelmen has been a district of Schönebeck (Elbe) since 1932 and is a state-approved spa in the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Groß Salze as a so-called Immediatstadt was directly subordinated to the government of the duchy and lay in the wood circle.

The "Königlich Preußische Saline" (Royal Prussian Salt Works) was the largest state enterprise in Prussia at that time.

The discovery of the healing effect of brine by Johann Wilhelm Tolberg marked the beginning of the history of the spa town of Bad Salzelmen.

The caverns thus created ("Graf-Moltke-Schacht") were later used as underground inhalation rooms and during the last years of the Second World War to store, among other things, museum collections of the Berlin State Museums and archives of the Deutsche Akademie and the Prussian Privy State Archives.

J. W. Tolberg: The Soolbad in Elmen. Its history and current furnishings, together with instructions for its proper use and the associated artificial baths , 1822. Title page with an illustration of the bathhouse.