Wieliczka, a town in Austrian Galicia, near Cracow, famous for its salt mines, which have been wrought continuously since 1250, the galleries of which extend to more than 50 m. in length, and the annual output of which is over 50,000 tons.
Population (circa 1900) given as 6,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Wieland, Christoph Martin * Wier, Johann