Editing Old Salt Route (section)

{{short description|Medieval trade route in northern Europe}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}}
[[File:AlteSalzstrasse.png|thumb|Map: Old Salt Route]]
The '''Old Salt Route''' was a [[medieval]] trade route in [[Northern Germany]], one of the ancient network of [[Salt Road|salt roads]] which were used primarily for the transport of [[History of salt|salt]] and other staples. In Germany it was referred to as ''Alte Salzstraße''.

Salt was very valuable and essential at that time; it was sometimes referred to as "white gold." The vast majority of the salt transported on the road was produced from brine near [[Lüneburg]], a city in the northern central part of the country and then transported to [[Lübeck]], a major seaport on Germany's [[Baltic Sea]] coast.<ref name="Sell">{{cite web | url = http://www.lueneburger-salzstrasse.de/ | last = Sell | first = Nora | title = Die Alte Salzstraße – von Lüneburg nach Lübeck| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040902122345/http://www.lueneburger-salzstrasse.de/ | archive-date = September 2, 2004 | language = de}}</ref>