Rosenheim

Rosenheim stands near the confluence of the Inn and Mangfall in the Bavarian Alpine foreland. The Inn bridge and salt transport are recorded in 1276, and Rosenheim received market rights in 1328. River shipping made it a transfer point for goods, including grain, livestock and salt, carried along the Inn and Danube.

Trade declined during the seventeenth century, when the market also suffered plague in 1634 and a major fire in 1641. In 1810 a new saltworks began boiling brine brought from the Reichenhall area through a wooden pipeline. This industry added a new chapter to Rosenheim's long association with the salt trade.