What is Bad Reichenhall?
{{Infobox German location |type = Stadt |image_photo = Bad Reichenhall Altes Rathaus.jpg |image_caption = Former town hall |image_coa = DEU Bad Reichenhall COA.svg |coordinates = {{coord|47|43|29|N|12|52|37|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |image_plan = Bad_Reichenhall_in_BGL.png |state = Bavaria |region = Upper Bavaria |district = Berchtesgadener Land |elevation = 473 |area = 39.44 |postal_code = 83435 |area_code = 08651 |licence = BGL (''until 1979:'' REI) |Gemeindeschlüssel = 09 1 72 114 |website = {{url|https://www.stadt-bad-reichenhall.de/}} |mayor = Herbert Lackner |Bürgermeistertitel = Oberbürgermeister |party = [[Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern|CSU]] }} '''Bad Reichenhall''' is a [[spa town]], and [[capital (city)|capital]] of the [[Berchtesgadener Land]] district in [[Upper Bavaria]], [[Germany]]. It is located near [[Salzburg]], and encircled by the Chiemgauer Alps. Mount Staufen ({{convert|1771|m|ft|abbr=off}}) and Mount Zwiesel ({{convert|1781|m|ft|abbr=off}}) are both near Bad Reichenhall. Bad Reichenhall is a traditional center of [[salt]] production, obtained by evaporating water saturated with salt from [[brine]] ponds. The town was the site of a [[Bad Reichenhall ice rink roof collapse|disaster]] on 2 January 2006, when the roof of the town's [[ice rink]] collapsed under snow, killing 15 and injuring 34 others. == Ice rink disaster == [[File:Bad Reichenhall Alte Saline.jpg|thumb|left|Alte Saline (old salt refinery)]] Fifteen people, twelve of them children, died in the collapse of the Bad Reichenhall Ice Rink on 2 January 2006. Thirty-four people were injured in the accident.<ref>{{cite news|agency=The Associated Press|title=German town mourns after ice-rink collapse|newspaper=Msnbc|url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10596709/ns/world_news-europe/t/german-town-mourns-after-ice-rink-collapse/|date=April 2010}}</ref> == Famous people from Bad