The Salt Museum

As mentioned earlier, the wealth of Lüneburg came from the vast amount of salt under the city. We visited the museum which had a nice display about salt in general, the Hanseatic salt trade, and a lot about how the salt was mined in Lüneburg, from its discover up until the closures in 1980s.

I honestly thought they dug it from under the ground (you know, like from a salt mine), but here they drew then later pumped salt filled water up from beneath the city, and more or less cooked the salt out. All of this made Lüneburg one of the richest cites in the Hanse, because you needed a lot of salt to preserve all that fish the other Hanse cities were catching.Read more