Study on the Cultural Value of the World Heritage of Salt Industry

The world's three major salt world heritage projects are Poland's Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mine, France's Ark-Sennan Royal Saltwork and Austria's Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape. This paper combines the three salt world heritage projects with the United Nations World Heritage Assessment Standards to analyze the authenticity and irreplaceability of the cultural values of the three projects. On the registration criteria, the three major salt industry heritages were mainly selected through the cultural heritage Article iv; from the geographical perspective, the three projects are located in Europe. The salt industry heritage has a large number of cultural relics in other states, especially in China. It needs to be systematically and intensively integrated with the international standards, making the salt industry heritage an important part of the world heritage and displaying unique salt culture values. Keywords—Salt Industry World Heritage; Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mine; Alk-Sennan Royal Saltwork; HallstattDartstein Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape; organic evolution landscape; associated landscape