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Halle

Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (German pronunciation: [ˈhalə] ), is the second largest city of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.

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It is the sixth-most populous city in the area of former East Germany after (East) Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz, and Magdeburg, and is Germany's 31st-largest city.

Get in

Getting to Halle

  1. 01
    Leipzig/Halle Airport

    The airport, sometimes called Schkeuditz Airport, is 30 km away from central Halle.

  2. 02
    Berlin Brandenburg International Airport

    Berlin's main airport is less than two hours away by train and offers more direct international flights than Leipzig/Halle.

  3. 03
    Halle

    Is connected to the high-speed rail line Berlin–Erfurt–Frankfurt or –Munich.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Marktkirche Unser Lieben Frauen

    Late Gothic cathedral where Luther preached.

  2. 02
    Händel-Haus Halle

    Große Nikolaistraße 5, ticket@haendelhaus.de.

  3. 03
    Burg Giebichenstein

    Seebener Straße 1 (Take tram 7 or 8 to Burg Giebichenstein).

  4. 04
    Kunstmuseum Moritzburg

    Friedemann-Bach-Platz 5 (take a tram from Marktplatz to Moritzburgring.

  5. 05
    Neustadt

    The township built by the GDR in the 1980s to house chemical plant workers.

  6. 06
    Halloren Schokoladen-Museum

    Delitzscher Straße 70, museum@halloren.de.

Do

Things to do

Reederei Riedel River Tours. Tue-Sun hourly 10:00-18:00. Runs 45-minute river tours. Adult: €5. Handel Festival. In the second week of June.

Eat

Where to eat

Make sure you try some döner kebap. It's heavily Germanized Turkish food. Halle has some of the best döner in Germany.

  1. 01
    Ökoase

    Vegetarian restaurant popular among the hippie crowd.

  2. 02
    Gaststätte Zum Brotkasten

    Sternstraße 8.

  3. 03
    Bagel 29

    Große Ulrichstraße 29.

  4. 04
    MC-FT

    Weidenplan 2.

  5. 05
    Tristan

    Bornknechtstraße 2.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.