Saline Convention

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The agreement concluded between Bavaria and Austria on March 18 in Vienna regarding forest and saltworks ( saltworks convention of 1829)

The Saline Convention (full name: Convention between Bavaria and Austria on the mutual salt pans of March 18, 1829 ) is a state treaty between Bavaria and Austria to regulate intergovernmental questions relating to salt production . These concern the salt mining from the Austrian Dürrnberg to the Bavarian national territory and the wood extraction for the Bavarian salt works Bad Reichenhall in the Austrian Pinzgau ( Saalforste ).

Wilhelm Nerl and Hellmut Schöner described the convention as the oldest still valid state treaty in Europe, which of course does not stand up to scrutiny. In 1957 an amendment took place.

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Bavaria acquired the irrevocable right to cut wood to heat the Reichenhall brewhouses in Pinzgau , Austria . These forests are known as saal forests .

In return, Hallein miners dig for salt on the Dürrnberg deep under the border in Bavarian territory, a regulation that has survived all the turmoil since then.

In addition to these two important agreements, the Saltworks Convention also made other legal provisions; For example, it was determined how to proceed if an Austrian kills a compatriot in the Bavarian forest or which residents of farms in the Bavarian area receive guaranteed employment rights in the Austrian mines .

history

What the Wittelsbacher Ludwig der Kelheimer had agreed upon with the Salzburg Archbishop Eberhard II of Regensburg 600 years earlier was put into a written contract in 1829 : the Salines Main Convention.

Bavarian foresters still manage 11,158 hectares of forest in the area between Leogang and Unken , which are officially known as Saalforste . Bavaria also has an important say as landowner when it comes to the approval of ski lifts or quarries .

Although the mines in the Salzburger Land were closed in the 1980s and Bad Reichenhall no longer needs wood to extract salt from the brine , the agreement between the Free State of Bavaria and the Republic of Austria on the application of the Saline Convention of 25. March 1957, the new treaty is still valid to this day.

literature

  • Fritz Hofmann : 150 years of the Saline Convention between Bavaria and Austria 1829–1979 . Publishing house C. Ortmann, Mitterfelden
  • Alexander Wegmaier: Foreign Policy in Federalism. The Bavarian-Austrian Saline Convention of 1957 . (= Research on national and regional history, Volume 12.) Eos-Verlag: St. Ottilien 2011, ISBN 978-3-8306-7505-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Preamble to the agreement between the Free State of Bavaria and the Republic of Austria on the application of the Saline Convention of March 25, 1957 (Bayerisches Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt 1958, p. 167)
  2. ^ Wilhelm Nerl and Hellmut Schöner: Salt and Wood. The Bavarian-Austrian Saline Convention of 1829. Europe's oldest state treaty. (Berchtesgadener Schriftenreihe 14), Munich 1979, chooses the designation as Europe's oldest state treaty in the heading.
  3. ↑ For example, in the current cantonal law of Switzerland there are some international treaties that were concluded before 1829; see. Bardo Fassbender, Raffael Gübeli: The currently valid international treaties of the cantons. Attempt a systematic inventory. In: Schweizerisches Zentralblatt für Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht 3, 2018, pp. 107–123 and I – XLVII ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ https://www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de/Lexikon/Salinenkonvention_1829_und_1957
  5. ↑ Article 31 (2) of the treaty between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Austria on the common state border of February 29, 1972 (Federal Law Gazette 1975 II p. 771)