Almkanal
Nine-hundred-year-old water channel that once rented its power to millers, bakers, and brewers.
This guide to the Almkanal in Salzburg traces the tunnel the Cathedral Chapter and the monks of St Peter's Abbey bored through the Mönchsberg between 1137 and 1143, not for treasure but for water they could rent out. You'll hear how millers and bakers paid to turn their wheels on it, how the channel was later stretched to the Königsseeache to keep the flow reliable, and how workshops and pump houses lined its banks for centuries afterward. It follows that rented current all the way to the businesses still drawing on it today. Listen for the water still rushing beneath the mountain as you stand over the tunnel.
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