Bad Sülze
2 Attractions
Bakery - Backstuuv Wunnerbar - Bad Sülze
● Bad Sülze
Bakery - Cafe Wunderbar Fresh rolls and baked goods as well as other regional products Opening hours: Mon. to Fri. 9.00 - 17.00 h Sat. and Sun. closed
Peat-Hauling Wagons at the Sülze Salt Works
● Bad Sülze
A mine car on rails—this was used in the past to haul peat from the surrounding bogs as fuel for evaporating the brine. Using these mine cars, the peat sods were hauled by the peat-loading women from the barge on the Recknitz River—just a few hundred meters from here—to the firebox of the boiler. The saltworks consumed millions of peat sods to boil the salt. These were mainly harvested from the Langsdorf Moor. During the summer, 200 people worked here. At 6 a.m., before dawn, they set off for the moor. Here, the peat was initially cut by hand. It wasn’t until later that they acquired cutting machines, which made the work easier. Men and women worked together. The men cut the peat and the women carted it to the drying area. In good weather, the stacked peat would dry in six weeks. But woe betide them if it was a wet year. The workers in the bog would get soaked to the skin and had to figure out how to get their clothes dry again by the next morning. Every 14 days, the district judge would come to the bog to inspect the work. Wages were always paid on Saturday.