Bad Reichenhall is a beautiful little mountain spa town located in the Bavarian Alps in Germany, close to the Austrian border. The first known residents of the area date back to 2000 B.C but the area didn’t become popular with tourists until the early nineteenth century. Bad Reichenhall is popular for its beautiful scenery and winter sports areas, but if you’ve heard of Bad Reichenhall, it was unfortunately probably not for these reasons but for the disaster that happened on the second of January 2006.