Travel Guide to Halle an der Saale, Germany

Halle is a German city located on the Saale River. This is an administrative center of the district of the same name. The population of Halle estimates 236 thousand of people according to the data of 1968.

Halle is an important transport junction, a river port, and a center of chemical industry that is well-developed here due to rich sources of potassium sault, brown coal, sault, and copper. Halle is also an important mechanical engineering center with rail carriage, machine-tool construction, food and pharmaceutical industries, wood processing, cement making, metallurgy and production of building materials. Besides that Halle is one of the largest printing centers in Germany. Farming and growing vegetables is also among specialties of this place.

The center of Halle is usually represented with an old city that is known by its wrong planning and medieval type buildings. You may like visiting Markt Platz where is located Red Tower (1418-1506), the monument of a famous composer Handel who is known as a Halle local and a hall church Marienkirche. Among old buildings travellers are usually suggested to visit Moritzburg Palace that is now turned into a museum, a hall cathedral, and a university built according to the project of Schinkel. The historical center is surrounded by new districts that mostly consist of newly built houses. Finally, many travellers enjoy visiting Museum of Ancient History, a building of the Academy of Natural Sciences built in 1652. Especially for visitors with kids a large zoo is organized in Halle.