Halle: Germany
Halle (also called Halle an der Saale in order to distinguish from Halle in North Rhine-Westphalia) is the largest town in the German Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt. It lies in the southern part of the state, on the river Saale.
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Sights in Halle –
Giebichenstein Castle, first mentioned in 961, west of the city centre on a hill above the Saale river. –
Moritzburg, a newer castle, built in 1503; residence of the bishops of Magdeburg; destroyed in the Thirty Years’ War, then a ruin for centuries, rebuilt in 1904; today an Art Gallery. –
Cathedral, a steepleless building, originally a church within a Dominican monastery (1271). –
Halle-Neustadt, Mostly built in the 1960s Halle-Neustadt lies just to the East of Halle. A classic example of how mean, state sponsored housing, on a huge scale, combined with brutalist architecture and “one-size-fits-all” social engineering failed to achieve its aims but did convice most of the people that lived there that moving to another city was a good idea. Halle-Neustadt is sometimes referred to as “Hanoi” in an ironic play on words referring to the heavily bombed capital of Vietnam.
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