Neckarsalinenverein

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The Neckar Aline club was an economic cartel of the salt pans Clemens Hall ( Offenau ), Ludwig ( Bad Rappenau ), Ludwig Hall ( Bad Wimpfen ) and Frederick Hall ( Jagstfeld ) for protection against their respective competitors . Name-defining is the common location on the Neckar , where prehistoric residents z. B. in Heinsheim discovered salt seams with brine outflow .

With its existence from 1828 to 1936, it was the oldest and longest effective German sales cartel : The members guaranteed each other a monopoly on the sale of their own products in their own country, while the export of corresponding products from the cartel area was jointly contractually agreed agreed quotas took place.

Soon after the merger, a very large sales area was opened up: in addition to the seated states of the Grand Duchy of Baden , the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt and Württemberg , it extended over east and west Bavaria as well as the Bavarian Rhine Palatinate and extended over the southern part of the Rhine province to the Netherlands .

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  1. ^ Museum in the Franconian Court , Bad Rappenau City Museum, Bürgerhaus