Halle (Saale) (deu)

Halle (Saale)

Halle (Saale) ranks 304th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Hamamatsu, Tartu, and France. Memorable people born in Halle (Saale) include George Frideric Handel, Reinhard Heydrich, and Johann Friedrich Struensee. Memorable people who died in Halle (Saale) include Georg Cantor, Christian Wolff, and Matthias Grünewald. Halle (Saale) has been the birth place of many politicians, and athletes and the death place of many philosophers, and composers. Halle (Saale) is located in Germany.

Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (German: [ˈhalə]; from the 15th to the 17th century: Hall in Sachsen; until the beginning of the 20th century: Halle an der Saale ; from 1965 to 1995: Halle/Saale) is the largest city of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is the fifth-most populous city in the area of former East Germany after (East) Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz, as well as the 31st-largest city of Germany. With around 244,000 inhabitants, it is slightly more populous than the state capital, Magdeburg. With Leipzig, the largest city of Saxony, Halle forms the polycentric Leipzig-Halle conurbation. Leipzig/Halle International Airport lies between the two cities, in Schkeuditz. The Leipzig-Halle conurbation is at the heart of the larger Central German Metropolitan Region. Read more on Wikipedia