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Terezia Mine, Salina Turda

Looking down into the Terezia Mine at Salina Turda, Romania: a dark salt lake with small rowing boats, wooden walkways and an island with lit pavilions under striped salt walls.
Artwork FileTurda, Romania

Terezia Mine, Salina Turda

SeenAug 2024

Salina Turda · Turda, Cluj County · mined 1690–1880

Photo: Rkoster / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0), as published on Street Art Utopia.

Terezia Mine is the oldest chamber of Salina Turda, a bell-shaped hall 90 metres high where salt was cut from 1690 to 1880. A salt lake now covers most of its floor around an island of leftover salt, and a landing stage with boats lets visitors out onto it. Source Source Checked

Seen Aug 2024: the dated photo. The mine’s own site still describes the lake and island. Source Source Checked

💡 4 things to know

  1. Oldest part of the mineSalina Turda’s site calls Terezia the oldest mining work in the whole salt mine, exploited between 1690 and 1880. Source Checked
  2. A 90-metre bellThe chamber is 90 metres high; the depth from the mouth of the shafts to the base is 112 metres. Source Checked
  3. A lake and an islandThe lake covers about 80% of the floor, and an island formed from residual salt deposited after mining stopped in 1880. Source Checked
  4. Boats on the lakeTurda’s town hall says a landing stage with boats was built on the lake, as part of the modernisation finished in January 2010. Source Checked

📍 Where it is

Salina Turda, Turda, Cluj County, Romania. Source Source Checked

Open in Maps

Opens a map of Salina Turda. The chamber is underground, so there is no Street View of it.

🗓️ Sightings

  1. 1690

    Salt cutting begins

  2. 1880

    Salt cutting ends

  3. 2010Jan

    Reopens after modernisation

  4. 202411 Aug

    Lake and island photographed

Green stamps mark dated photographs; amber stamps mark records or reports; red stamps mark loss. Publication dates are not camera dates.

🗞️ In the sources

Salina TurdaOfficial website

“It is the oldest mining work in the whole Turda Salt Mine, the salt being exploited between 1690 and 1880.”

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✅ The facts

Mining period
1690–1880 Source Checked
Height
90 metres Source Checked
Diameter
About 75 m (mine) or about 70 m (town hall) Source Source Conflicting
Lake depth
Up to 6 m (mine) or 5–8 m (town hall) Source Source Conflicting
Lake
Covers about 80% of the floor Source Checked
Island
Residual salt deposited after 1880 Source Checked
Boats
Landing stage built in the 2008–2010 modernisation Source Checked
Photographed
11 August 2024 Source Checked

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