BERCHTESGADEN, a town in south-eastern Bavaria, Germany, beautifully situated at a height of 1, 70of t., on the Untersberg, south-east Bavaria. Pop. It is cele brated for its extensive mines of rock-salt, worked as early as I174. The town contains an early Gothic abbey church with Romanesque cloister. The district was formerly an independent spiritual principality, founded in I I oo and secularized in 1803. Toy-making is an old-established local industry.