Alte Saline, Industrial architectural ensemble in Bad Reichenhall, Germany.

The Alte Saline is a long, symmetrical red-brick complex in Bad Reichenhall, built with pale stone trim above a ground-floor arcade of tall round-arched openings fitted with dark metal grilles. Seven arches flank each side of the central entrance, and a row of smaller arched windows runs above. The central section is pale stone, rising to a gabled tower with a clock and a cross; the roofs are green. The buildings group geometrically around three courtyards, each side courtyard holding a large tree-lined fountain.

The fire of 1834 destroyed the saline; King Ludwig I ordered a new complex with 51 house plots bought for safety distances. Friedrich von Gärtner built the Beamtenstock from 1836, and the foundation stone of the main pump house was laid in 1838 to plans by Joseph Daniel Ohlmüller and Friedrich von Schenk. The first boiling house opened in 1844, the fourth in 1851, and salt was made here until 1929.

The site is still called Alte Saline, and its buildings carry house numbers assigned clockwise starting at Magazine 2. In 1858 around 640 worker families, some 1,500 people, lived directly from the saltworks, nearly half of Bad Reichenhall's roughly 3,200 inhabitants. In 1869 the guilds of pan workers, wood splitters, coopers and stokers joined in a Salzbruderschaft, which merged with the mine association in 1871.

The complex is arranged around three courtyards, with four boiling houses and adjoining salt magazines along Salinenstraße; the main pump house stands at the brine springs. The grounds are uneven in places, with steps and cobbles, so wear sturdy shoes. The site is a protected monument; some buildings are used by the adjacent salt museum.

The house numbers of the saline buildings were assigned clockwise, starting at Magazine 2. During foundation work, a prehistoric well lining and a Bronze Age axe were found, showing that the brine springs were already used in prehistoric times.