"To suit to bright beach at the Saale castles proud and bold...", so an old German folk song begins. There are two castles, the "Moritzburg" and the "Burg Giebichenstein", in the town area of Halle/Saale.

The "Moritzburg" is actually a fortified castle. In the year 1484 the laying of the foundation stone occurred as a later residence of the Magdeburger archbishops. The castle shows forms of the finishing Gothic, was constructed in the style of the morning Renaissance and one of the most imposing buildings of the city is today. Since the 19th century the castle accommodates particularly the "Foundation Moritzburg" (Link: www.moritzburg.sachsen-anhalt.de) with supra regional charisma. The "Foundation Moritzburg" preserves and presents as an art museum of the state of Saxony-Anhalt collections of the painting, graphics and photograph, the sculpture, the art craft and the numismatics. In addition also the student club "Turm Halle" (Link: www.turm-net.de) is today in the "Moritzburg".

The castle "Burg Giebichenstein" is component of the street of the Romanesque. It was uplifted presumable beginning in the second half of the 12th century. The fortification is subdivided into one upper- and an under castle. While the upper castle is being used today as a free light museum and being a popular lookout over the Saale-valley, in the under castle the "Burg Giebichenstein - University for art and design Halle" (Link: www.burg-halle.de) was fit out.

The Beatles Museum in Halle/Saale (Link: www.beatlesmuseum.net) is the worldwide largest public facility on the topic "The Beatles".

"The Beatles" – called often as "Fab Four" or jocularly as "Mushroom heads" (because of their hairdo in the original years) – was a British band from Liverpool and are regarded as the most successful and most influential band of the 20th century. Their career began in 1962 lasted to 1970th. "The Beatles" are also today still the group with the worldwide mostly sold recording mediums.

The band members were John Lennon (John Winston Lennon, later John Ono Lennon), Paul McCartney, (James Paul McCartney), George Harrison and Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey). Temporarily participated in the group Stuart ("Stu") Sutcliffe and Randolph Peter ("Pete") Best. John Lennon and Paul McCartney were the musical heads and composed most songs of the band.

The Beatles museum in Halle/Saale was set up and fit out by the meanwhile late Matthias Buehring.

"Dear young fathers or fathers-to-be, you have courage! Name your newcomers of the present day Waldemar calmly. Waldemar is there!" (Heinz-Florian Oertel, Olympia 1980 in Moscow). This shout of joy was meant at that time for Waldemar Cierpinski with his second Olympic victory in the Marathon in 1980th Moscow. Before he had already won 1976 in Montreal the Olympic Marathon.

Today one brings the name "Cierpinski" with the "Sport house Cierpinski Sport" in the cities Halle and Quedlinburg (Link: www.cierpinski-sport.de) as well as with the "Central German Marathon (MDM)" (Link: www.mitteldeutscher-marathon.de) in touch.

When it is to chief-organizer of the "Central German Marathons" to owe Waldemar Cierpinski especially that the route rich in tradition between the cities Halle/Saale and Leipzig on which in 1925 the first German championships occurred in Marathon with the Marathon 2002 (Relief of the Olympic application of Leipzig) was revived. Since then that one developed "Marathon" to a sporting big event, that once annual between the cities Halle/Saale and Leipzig is delivered. This marathon run appertains worldwide to the few runs which are completed between two cities, and completely is through that in the sign of the classical run of Marathon to Athens in the antique Greece.

The German Academy of the natural researchers Leopoldina in Halle/Saale (Link: www.leopoldina-halle.de) is the oldest and member-strongest academy (scientific-medical scholar society) in Germany.

The objective of the academy is the promotion of the investigation in international cooperation for the welfare of the people and the nature, through event of scientific meetings, publication of the elaborated results, conversation of a scientific archive and a scientific library, awards of distinctions and prices for the promotion of young scientists. Excellent scholars are chosen to member of the academy from all world.

All scientific events of the German academy of the natural researchers Leopoldina are accessible to the scientifically interested public. All scientific events of the academy are published in specific notebooks of the writing lines "Nova Acta Leopoldina", "Acta Historica Leopoldina" and "annual" and made accessible to the public.

A special the bathed- and sauna pleasure offers the experience bath "Maya mare" very held in the Mexican style in Halle/Saale (Link: www.mayamare.de). The experience bath is divided into different parts. In the "bathing-paradise" one finds Caribbean Giant Waves, refreshing waterfalls, bubbling geysers and big fountains. Slackening can one on the soda water waiting times and at the numerous massage nozzles in the experience cymbal. The 4 different water chutes are the absolute high light in the experience bath "Maya mare" and with an overall length of 440 m the greatest slide pleasure in the states Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony. The "sauna village" offers eight experience based saunas: the Aztec sauna, the Maya bath, the cabbage sauna, the beach sauna, the Biosanarium, the Caldarium, the brine grotto and the Kelo sauna in the sauna garden. The "Wellness part" facilitates most different massages - of the classical massage, the Acupuncture massage up to Reiki. The Mexican "Bodega" moves the visitor into the time of the colonial style and in a spoilt way at any time with delicious courts, of small Snacks, ice variations and sweet cakes.

The Francke Foundations to Halle/Saale (Link: www.francke-halle.de) were founded in 1695 of  August Hermann Francke as pietistic social and formation work.

Today the foundations with their partner furnishings are on the ground a unique centre  of cultural, scientific, pedagogic, social and Christian furnishings, a complex with kindergartens, Child creative centre, schools, a house of the generations, a youth workshop, a Bible centre, business enterprises rich in tradition, but also with archive, libraries, furnishings, on-campus how non-on-campus investigation furnishings and a lot more. The Francke Foundations to Halle/Saale organize annually own cultural and scientific year programs, the about 100 events - exhibitions, lecture lines, scientific conferences, concerts, celebrations and child and family offers grasp. The topics of these years are awake according to the interface of current socio political discussions and contents of the foundations work their traditions.

The Objective of the Francke Foundations to Halle/Saale is to lead the rescue and durable preservation of the building ensemble and the historical collections as well as the ideas and traditions of their founder into the future.

The townscape and the public renown of Halle/Saale is endangered by increasing graffiti. Historical monuments are attacked so in their substance, public buildings, traffic plants and beauties of nature just the same as business and private houses are defaced.

Therefore of engaged citizens and citizens in the city the "Association Halle-against-graffiti e.V." (Link: www.halle-gegen-graffiti.de) was founded, that makes an effort for a contribution to the identity protection of the city through educational and wider preventive measures and with the fast elimination of graffiti damages.

The promotion of the care and preservation of culture values as well as the youth welfare and youth upbringing is purpose of the association. The association supports the improvement of the city with that in the tradition of associations, which was founded in times, when there were still no spray cans or graffiti. In the sense of the association purpose only the defence of the spray can vandalism is not supposed to occur, but to be moved the inhabitants from Halle/Saale for a positive cooperation at the care of the townscape.

The inhabitants of Halle/Saale are called in an ironically meant classification in categories with pleasure as Hallenser, Halloren and Hallunken. This division is supposed to be to be put down to Heinrich Heine, who spoke of Hallensern, Halloren and scoundrels once.

Hallenser are the ones born in Halle/Saale. Those old-established Hallenser are regarded as Halloren, that the "salt knitter brotherhood" still existing today "in the valley to Halle" (Link: www.halloren.com). With Hallunken toads all consulted ones are described.

One associates also Germany's oldest chocolate factory, the "Halloren chocolate factory" (Link: www.halloren.de), with the name "Halloren" nowadays, which one already in the year 1804 was founded. The "Halloren chocolate factory" is world confessed through the chocolate candy "Halloren bullets". The "Halloren bullets" in this case owe form and name to the silver buttons on the dresses of the "Halloren". The "Halloren chocolate factory" has a glassy show production as well as an own chocolate museum, where one also of the unique "Halloren chocolate room", a room held in the Biedermeier style completely of chocolate, can visit.

In the centre of Halle/Saale an extraordinary one and presumably unique island entstanden. Departing from an old movie theatre hall a whole quarter with in total eight buildings increased in the course of the years to the "culture island Halle" (Link: www.kulturinsel-halle.de).

Today the "new theatre Halle" with Big Hall, Court theatre, shipyard stage (formerly chest of drawers) and tween deck, the "puppet theatre Halle", the art gallery "gallery culture island", the "riff-CLUB" (formerly reading room), the literature café "nt-Café", the theatre pub "Strieses beer tunnel" belongs to the "culture island Halle". Also the sepulchre might be worldwide unique presumably for a theatre cat.

Closely united with the previous evolution of the "culture island Halle" was and is the actor, director und "Tatort" detective Peter Sodann, without whom there would never presumably have been such a - officially never planned - project. The "culture island Halle" is supported nowadays by the members of the supporting-association "Friends of the new theatre".

A small jewel arose in particular in the last years with the airport Leipzig-Halle (Link: www.leipzig-halle-airport.de).

Already during the journey the airport Leipzig-Halle is presented as a modern traffic centre point which puts accents through his prominent architecture. Airplanes Airplanes roll over bridges which span the motorway as well as the ICE-route and join the motorway as well as the ICE-route and which unite the two starting and landing-railroads.

That in his form of a wing similar terminal unites under a roof the airport railway station with the multi-storey car park as well as the Check-In-area. Passengers and visitors find in the brightly flowed through Mall the possibilities to shop, to drink coffee or only simply to ease before the train drives or starts the airplane. A visitor hill offers a panorama look over the Airport. From an outlook platform directly at the starting and landing-railroad one can observe the starts and alighting of the airplanes skin-near.

High quality and succeeding-assurance, speed as well as a single dressing make the forecastle mixtures from Kathi (Link: www.kathi.de).

To the philosophy of the enterprise from Halle/Saale rich in tradition appertained and it belongs to create an emotional brand that suffices since qualitative claims highest over 50 years and to communicate. The high quality of the assortment is confirmed continuously through distinctions and quality seals of the German agrarian and nutrition property economy.

The way to the Kathi favourite cake leads over the forecastle experience with Kathi. The heart statement "Of course Kathi, simply good" is always with the confession "Kathi, my favourite cake" united and an identification with the brand Kathi creates with the consumer. This emotional statement receives their reason and their authorization through the great selection at products of Kathi.

The enterprise has an excellent market position, market leader in the new states and is at the same time Germany's second-tallest forecastle mixture manufacturer.

The federal state museum for prehistory in Halle/Saale (Link: www.landesmuseum-fuer-vorgeschichte-halle.de) is in the meantime world confessed as a home place of the "sky pane of Nebra". However, also without this spectacular find the museum is very remarkable.

The present museum building is the first and thus oldest in that archaeological purpose building into Germany as well as at the same time also the oldest museum of prehistoric archaeology in Germany.

As a part of the archaeological care of monuments in the Saxony-Anhalt state one of the oldest, most extensive and most important archaeological collections in Germany houses the federal state museum for prehistory in Halle/Saale. The museum belongs with that to central Europe to the most important archaeological museums.

The museum is supported by the "association for the promotion of the federal state museum for prehistory Halle (Saale) e.V." (Link: www.verein-landesmuseum.de). The objective of the association is it, investigations to support for the prehistory and early history in the Saxony-Anhalt state as soon as to enter for an enlargement and deepening of the history sense in public. The federal state museum for prehistory in Halle/Saale and his collection of archaeological preciousness of first rank are supposed to be moved into the look of the public by financial aids and honorary engagement increasingly.

The city Halle/Saale developed in the last years also to a multimedia place. The Central German Multimedia Centre Halle (MMZ) (Link: www.mmz-halle.de) finished in the year 2005 is a special proof of that.

The Central German Multimedia Centre Halle is a specialized disposal building, that is optimal room structures, the mutual proximity and cooperation - all this is guarantor for the success. In the centre multimedia is developed, designed, produced and marketed in all field of application. It is a place of the search, the training, the planning and production of future, because maybe future is written in few years so: "Multimedia".

The complex of buildings is subdivided into three architectural elements: the "base" with working spaces and basement garage, the "cube" with congress hall, working spaces, video and sound studios as well as the "levitation body" with reception, working spaces, cafeteria, and multipurpose rooms.

In the last years some Nutrias settled at and in the river Saale. Nutrias are a rodent kind coming from South America and naturalized into central Europe. The animals were held in the past due to their beautiful and water rejecting skin in fur farms and escaped presumably after the breakdown of the fur market. The so-called captivity fugitives established some bigger populations very quickly due to the local climate, relatively favourable to Nutrias, and their high increase rate.

The animals are very friendly, live very much from about 12 to 15 animals site-loyally in communities and defend their district engage. The Nutrias became accustomed to the visit from strollers and can even be fed. The animals are mainly pure vegetarians and both day- than also night-acting, in particular, however, dawn-acting. Some engaged inhabitants of the city did it into the aim in life, to worry around the animals lovedly and to supply these with the necessary feed.

The opera house Halle (Link: www.opernhaus-halle.de) is the single opera house in the Saxony-Anhalt state and at the same time the biggest theatre of the city. It was built in 1871 in the neoclassical architectural style.

The house offers the visitors the whole width and variety of a music theatre. Here also musical and ballet are played next to opera and operetta. The orchestra gives symphony and chamber concerts regularly. With the annual new productions of operas of Georg Friedrich Händel, the most important son of the city, it is only not raked international claims, but sets also even standards.

The opera house Halle is supported by the "society of the friends of the opera house Halle e.V.". An association joining opens the possibility to reminisce about the performances with like-minded persons in the opera house Halle and to be associated with the artists of the greatest culture institution of the city Halle/Saale in special manner.

The biggest local recreation field in the heart of Halle/Saale is the Peißnitz island. This island, referred also as "An island of the regeneration" to, is a very popular place of excursions. The Peißnitz island is one of the big river islands the landscape conservation area's Saale valley and at the same time the biggest island in the town area.

There are an open-air stage and a restaurant on the island. In addition expect the visitor next to various children's playgrounds, the children's train "Peißnitzexpress" (Link: www.pe-halle.de) and the space flight planetarium "Siegmund Jähn" Halle (Saale) (Link: www.schulplanetarium-halle.de). The "Peißnitz house" keeps on being on the island, around that preservation the "supporting-association to restoration and durable use the culture house's Peißnitz island" (short: Peißnitz house e.V.) intensely bothers (Link: www.peissnitzhaus.de).

The Peißnitz island is very popular especially through their versatility. On the north top of the island one finds gold rest forest which is under nature conservation. The mesial part on which the purpose buildings are offers pleasures for experience-hungry visitors. In the south of the Peißnitz island with the manor house "Gimritz" and the relevant park one finds rest and expansion.

Right through Europe the way led from Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759). With that he was a genuine European already at his time and numbers also today still among the most important European musicians and composers. Georg Friedrich Händel was born in Halle/Saale.

In the birthplace of Händel, the "Händel house Halle" (Link: www.haendelhaus.de), is the music museum of the city Halle/Saale. Next to a Händel exhibition an exhibition for the regional music history, an exhibition of historical music instruments as well as special exhibitions occur. The "Händel house Halle" is a centre of attraction for Händel friends from all world.

In honour of the important musician and composer the Händel festivals (Link: www.haendelfestspiele.halle.de) occur annually at the beginning of June in Halle, as an international music celebration. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of death of Händel in the year 1859 a Händel monument was unveiled on the market place in Halle.

The "all-round exploration of lives and tubs of Georg Friedrich Händel in all world to propose to support and to practice himself", that is the objective of the "Georg-Friedrich-Händel-society international association e.V".

The space flight planetarium "Siegmund Jähn" Halle (Saale) was opened in 1978 on the island "Peissnitzinsel". It is the biggest planetarium in the Saxony-Anhalt state and numbers with a dome diameter from 12,5 m among the group of the middle-sized planetariums, offers, however, the same effects as a big-sized planetarium. It is adjustable for every arbitrary place of the earth of the stellar skies in the planetarium, even a look into the past and into the future is possible.

The planetarium is also simultaneously an observatory. In an observation dome on the roof of the side wing is 150/2250 mm Coudè refractor with which sky observations are possible.

The space flight planetarium is supported by the "Astro society Halle" (Society for astronomical formation e.V.). In the association astronomy enthusiastic meet from Halle/Saale and surroundings (Link: www.astroverein-halle.de).

A regular visit of the space flight planetarium "Siegmund Jähn" Halle (Saale) as well as the Internet offer (Link: www.schulplanetarium-halle.de) is to be recommended - also up to now (yet) Not Astronomy Enthusiastic - very much.

The evolution of the streetcar is connected with the city Halle/Saale very closely. Beginning in 1878 a horse bus line was used as precursors to the horse streetcar. Already 1882 the first horse streetcars drove then through the city. In the year 1891 the first electrical streetcar started the company then. With that Halle/Saale was the first city on the European continent with an electric streetcar net.

The present streetcar net in Halle/Saale and surroundings is practiced from the traffic limited company HAVAG (Link: www.havag.com).

According to the long tradition of the streetcar in Halle/Saale the available historical streetcars are maintained through the members of the association "streetcar friends Halle e.V." (Link: www.hallesche-strassenbahnfreunde.de). The "Historical streetcar depot Seebener street" that is used as a museum and it makes for visitors possible to visit the historical streetcars in each case of May until October every Saturday.

One of the oldest and most renowned clubs in Halle/Saale is the student club "Turm Halle" wonderfully sited in the historical Moritzburg (Link: www.turm-net.de).

The "Turm Halle" has three floors, where parties and discos as well as live concerts of jazz to skirt are organized. The international Moritzburg Jazz festival, the junior staff festival "Start kick" as well as the Central German Fair for small art and entertainment keep on occurring in the club. With that the club is one of the biggest and most diverse event houses of the city.

The upper floor of the club is the "concert hall" with stage and a small bar, the mesial floor is the "wine compartment" with a bar for domestic wines and delicious cocktails as well as the under floor is the "round" with a beer bar for the sounds of a band or a DJ's. In Addition the "castle ditch" of the Moritzburg is available in the warm season for open-air concerts.

The University in Halle/Saale, the contemporary Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Link: www.uni-halle.de), arose from two universities. One was founded in 1502 into Wittenberg and the other one in 1694 into Halle. Both universities were united then in 1817 into Halle and the firm where apprentices are trained in Wittenberg ends. This special feature finds in particular symbolic expression in the double seal of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg.

The university is the biggest and oldest educational facility in the Saxony-Anhalt state and belongs to the oldest universities of the German-speaking area.

The university increased continuously and meanwhile spread over the entire city from Halle/Saale. The actual centre of the university is, however, the university place with the classicistic "lion building". With that the city has one of the most beautiful university places of Europe.

The Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg is a full university. It can be studied almost everything: Social and spirit sciences, natural sciences and medicine.

The greatest nation and home celebration of Central Germany occurs in Halle/Saale. Traditionally the "lantern celebration" is celebrated at the last August weekend in the city then.

The roots of this celebration go back very much far and were associated to the "Halloren" with the history and the customs from the beginning inseparably. Two of these customs are the fisherman twinge in the case of which the "Halloren" bump themselves mutually on hesitating boats into the water, and the boat parade adorned with lights. The gala dress of the illuminated ships begins in the case of burglary of the dawn, with that also the several a thousand glow-worm (small liquid lights) are to be seen correct.

With the years attractions were added more and more, so the high-altitude fireworks and the duck race. Attaching onto the old tradition of members of the brotherhood that was active once as swimming-masters and "swimming Halloren" also the "Saale-swimming-certificate" is taken off nowadays again.

Next to that non-stop-programs with music, show and entertainment occur. The special thing at the lantern celebration is the variety of the events so that for every age-group and every taste something is always in this case.

The "five towers" are the landmark of Halle/Saale. The prominent silhouette of the city is formed by the "Red tower" and the four towers of the "market church St. Marien".

The "Red tower" is the single big free-standing belfry in Germany, is 84 m high and has the worldwide second-biggest chime with 76 bells. The tower was constructed in the late-Gothic architectural style as a belfry of the "market church St. Marien". It represented a Campanile with that at that time and is, at least related to his date of origin, to classify as a sacral building thus.

The "market church St. Marien" was built at the beginning of the 16th century instead of two predecessor churches by which the tower pairs were only integrated in each case into the building. For this reason the market church has two different tower pairs today. In the proximity of the "market church St. Marien" the oldest and biggest evangelic church library of Germany, the Marien library, is to be found.

The "infernal pages" of Halle/Saale: "Still x-days until the last one defines the light in Halle." The "x" stands by for the number of days until also the last inhabitant left the city forever. This satirically meant "inhabitant countdown" was carried out by "Hölle/Saale" (Link: www.hoelle-saale.de.tt) and took into account with that to the population drop in the city Halle/Saale since 1989.

A "removal mentor for still-Hallenser" facilitated the search for a new home for all migration-willing inhabitants of Halle/Saale.

One in addition found "The facts from the hell at the Saale": Unemployment rate, debts of the city, crimes, companies going bankrupt and so forth.

The parties responsible of the Internet offer, "Vröhliche.Vagabunde.von.Halle." (VVVH), showed an engagement for the city Halle/Saale that one a little other kind and consulted in this case especially all those Internet users that can deal with black humour. "Hölle/Saale" was the pure satire!

The Internet offer of "Hölle/Saale" is not more online unfortunately to the sorrow being of many readers of these "infernal pages", however ...

For all children and young person there is in the Internet Y-Pool, the youth information system of the city Halle/Saale (Link: www.ypool.de). It is an Internet offer of young person for young person in Halle/Saale and surroundings.

One finds also own experience reports to different journeys, sport events, museum and theatre visits, next to book and movie theatre tips, leisure offers as well as aids for homework.

Y-Pool keeps on supporting the young person in problems with alcohol and drugs during the search for contacts as well as sets an entrance to the "deliberation net" (Link: www.das-beratungsnetz.de), as fast aid over Internet and psychosocial online deliberation through experts, availably.

In the interactive part of the Internet offer of Y-Pool inquiries about the most different topics occur as well as the visitor book can be used for own opinion comments.

On the Reilsberg, one of the highest porphyry eruptions in the town area of Halle/Saale, is the Zoological garden Halle, often referred also as "A mountain zoo Halle" to (Link: www.zoo-halle.de).

Some valuable regeneration and formation furnishings are the mountain zoo in the area and the countryside around there is beautiful. From the observation tower and the cylindrical ways around the Reilsberg one has a wide view about the animal plants, the city and the surroundings. The free flight aviary on the top of the Reilsberg forms the landmark of the zoo together with the observation tower.

Is supported to the Zoological Garden Halle by the "Association of the conveyors and friends of the mountain zoo Halle" (shortly: zoo association Halle) (Link: www.zooverein-halle.de). Every personal member of the association receives a year admission ticket in order to be able to go to the mountain zoo Halle at any time.

One can commit oneself to the Zoological Garden Halle also by means of incorporation of an animal sponsorship. The name of the animal godfather is noted down on a godfather informative signum and the animal godfather himself receives a personal godfather document.