Salt axis settlement
The salt axis settlement is located in the north of the city of Salzburg . It belongs to the Liefering district and is surrounded on all sides by grassland. In the south, the motorway forms the border with Liefering-Lehenau. With almost 2,000 inhabitants, the Salzachseesiedlung is by far the largest in Salzburg.
The salt axes
The Salzachseen emerged in 1938 and in the following years by dredging of the Salzach ballast in the north Liefering ring, so the increased slope of the emerging empire highway (now A 1 building). This motorway was only fully completed in the city of Salzburg after the Second World War and only officially opened to traffic around 1955. In the meantime it served as a track for motorsport events.
Gravel was later extracted in the Salzachsee area, also for residential building purposes. In the vicinity of the Salzach there was no subsequent filling of the dredged areas, but their recultivation as a recreation area. The surroundings of the later "bathing lake" were not excavated either.
The removal of gravel resulted in the "Vogelsee" (the southernmost lake) east of Schmiedingerstraße, which was once known as a habitat for rare bird species far away from intensive recreational use, the "Große Salzachsee" and the "Badesee", which is now a popular bathing lake. West of the street is the "Karlsbader Weiher", named in memory of the city of Karlsbad in the former Bohemia and today's Czech Republic , from where not a few refugees came to Salzburg to find a new home. Today, other small lakes and ponds in private ownership enliven the surroundings of these largely artificially created lakes on the edge of the once mighty alluvial forest edge of the city of Salzburg with once many tributaries and oxbow lakes of the Salzach .
The salt axle dump
The salt axle dump is up to 8 m thick and cannot be described as an organized waste dump from the point of view of the facility. Above all, the landfill was not properly covered, for example with waterproof clay material. In 1966, this landfill was largely closed and the recultivation of the garbage areas began. However, it continued to operate on a small scale until around 1969. Since these landfill sites were closed, the garbage has been brought to Siggerwiesen, where - taking into account the new environmental requirements - the garbage is processed in the local modern environmental protection systems Siggerwiesen. For a long time now only the ashes of the incinerated residual waste have been deposited here.
The first large garbage dump in the city of Salzburg was in the inter-war period near the Salzach river, first in the area of today's trade school next to the Lehener Brücke and then moved to the area of the now asphalted areas of the Salzburg exhibition center. The landfill moved further and further down the Salzach river in front of the expanding city.
After the Second World War until around 1969, in the area of the former Lieferinger and Bergheimer Au on the left bank of the Salzach, commercial and household waste was deposited in the deeply dredged gravel pits and compacted. (For the current contaminated sites that arose from it, see the Salzachsee-Saalachspitz landscape protection area .) On the edge of this landfill, the Salzach settlement was built in the post-war years, which for decades suffered greatly from the dust from the garbage trucks and the stench of the landfill and was therefore not one of the posh settlements the city counted.
The salt axis settlement today
After the large Salzachsee garbage dump was closed, the formerly somewhat “dusty” district developed into a very well-kept settlement on the outskirts of Salzburg. In the north, the streets there are often named after native fish species (bream, pikeperch, pike, sturgeon). In the older southern part with the denser development there, the streets are named after early Bavarian dukes (Theodo, Tassilo, Ottilo, Hugbert). The northern part of the settlement in particular is largely characterized by one- and two-family houses and their gardens.