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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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## Every way there

- Erfurt → Halle 221 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · €29–41 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/erfurt-to-halle) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Erfurt&to=Halle)
- Dresden → Halle 388 km · quickest by road, 4h 58m · €50–70 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/dresden-to-halle) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Dresden&to=Halle)
- Berlin → Halle 347 km · quickest by road, 4h 23m · €42–60 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/berlin-to-halle) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Berlin&to=Halle)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Halle, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Halle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/halle)

What Halle has

- Y Scheduled flights Schkeuditz (LEJ), 19 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 6 timetable feeds for this country, 5 with real-time
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

51.483°, 11.970°

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. Leipzig/Halle Airport The airport, sometimes called Schkeuditz Airport, is 30 km away from central Halle.
2. 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. Halle Is connected to the high-speed rail line Berlin–Erfurt–Frankfurt or –Munich.

See

## Worth seeing

1. Marktkirche Unser Lieben Frauen Late Gothic cathedral where Luther preached.
2. Händel-Haus Halle Große Nikolaistraße 5, ticket@haendelhaus.de.
3. Burg Giebichenstein Seebener Straße 1 (Take tram 7 or 8 to Burg Giebichenstein).
4. Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Friedemann-Bach-Platz 5 (take a tram from Marktplatz to Moritzburgring.
5. Neustadt The township built by the GDR in the 1980s to house chemical plant workers.
6. 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. Ökoase Vegetarian restaurant popular among the hippie crowd.
2. Gaststätte Zum Brotkasten Sternstraße 8.
3. Bagel 29 Große Ulrichstraße 29.
4. MC-FT Weidenplan 2.
5. Tristan Bornknechtstraße 2.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halle_(Saale%29) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Halle), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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