The Bavarian–Austrian Salt Treaty of 1829 (, short ''Salinenkonvention'') is the oldest European

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still in effect. It was signed by the

Kingdom of Bavaria The Kingdom of Bavaria ( ; ; spelled ''Baiern'' until 1825) was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1806 and continued to exist until 1918. With the unification of Germany into the German Empire in 1871, the kingd ...

(now the

Free State of Bavaria Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total land area of Germany, and with over 13.08 million ...

) and the

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(now the

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). It gave the Austrians the right to mine in Bavaria in exchange for wood. An agreement to this effect had already existed for 600 years, and was formally regulated by a treaty from 1829. The treaty was revised on 25 March 1957.Abkommen zwischen dem Freistaat Bayern und der Republik Österreich über die Anwendung der Salinenkonvention vom 25. März 1957 (Bayerisches Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt 1958, S. 167)

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