SALZBRUNN  , a watering-

place of Germany, in the Prussian province of Silesia, at the foot of a well-wooded spur of the Riesengebirge, 3o m . S.W. of Breslau, by the railway to Halberstadt . Pop . (1905) 10,412 . It consists of Ober-, Neu- and Nieder-Salzbrunn, has a Roman Catholic and an Evangelical church and manufactures of glass, bricks and porcelain . Its alkalo-saline springs, especially efficacious in pulmonary and urinary complaints, were known as early as 1316, but fell into disuse until rediscovered early in the 19th century . The waters are used both for drinking and bathing, and of the two chief springs, the Oberbrunnen and the Kronenquelle, nearly two million bottles are annually exported . The number of summer visitors is about 7000 a year . See Valentiner, Der Kurort Obersalzbrunn (Berlin, 1877); Biefel, Der Kurort Salzbrunn (Salzbrunn, 1872) ; and Deutsch, Schlesiens Heilquellen and Kurorte (Breslau, 1873) .