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Berchtesgaden
Berchtesgaden is a market town in the Bavarian Alps, near the Austrian border south of Salzburg. It grew around a house of Augustinian canons founded in the early 12th century, whose provosts ruled the surrounding valley as imperial princes until 1803. Its salt mine, worked since 1517, was the basis of its wealth. It became part of Bavaria in 1810 and is now a centre of tourism near the Königssee.
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