To assist in the transportation of salt, a canal and a crane were built on the Stint, a former smelt market by the harbour.
The four boiling pans (Siedepfannen) in each hut, which were named after their first occupants, were supplied by channels and canals with brine.
If such a Siedeberechtigter leased at least four pans, he became known as a Sülfmeister ("master salter") and had a claim to his own boiling hut.
The Sodmeister looked after the distribution of brine and was chosen by the salt owners and the town council.
The salt tax (Sülzhilfe) was a levy from the prelates to the council to defray the duty payable to the town.
This generated much distrust of the council especially from the Butenländischen and the Lüneburg provost, Scharper, and they refused to pay the sum demanded.