Saxony-Anhalt is a state of Germany,bordering the states of Brandenburg,Saxony,Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of 20,451.7 square kilometres (7,896.4 sq mi) and has a population of 2.17 million inhabitants,making it the 8th-largest state in Germany by area and the 11th-largest by population. Its capital is Magdeburg and its largest city is Halle (Saale).
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,the fourth most populous city in the area of former East Germany after (East) Berlin,Leipzig and Dresden,as well as the 31st largest city of Germany,and with around 244,000 inhabitants,it is slightly more populous than the state capital of Magdeburg. Together with Leipzig,the largest city of Saxony,Halle forms the polycentric Leipzig-Halle conurbation. Between the two cities,in Schkeuditz,lies Leipzig/Halle International Airport. The Leipzig-Halle conurbation is at the heart of the larger Central German Metropolitan Region.
Erich Loest was a German writer born in Mittweida,Saxony. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Hans Walldorf,Bernd Diksen and Waldemar Naß.
The Central German Metropolitan Region is one of the officially established metropolitan regions in Germany. It is centered on the major cities of Leipzig and Halle,extending over Central German parts of the states of Saxony-Anhalt,Thuringia and Saxony. The Central German metropolitan region is the only one located entirely within the former East Germany. The "region" is not actually a metropolitan area in the geographic sense of the word as an agglomeration of nearby urban areas,rather it is a registered association,the Europäische Metropolregion Mitteldeutschland e.V. whose membership is composed of towns,cities,municipalities,and companies,colleges and chambers of commerce in the central German geographic area,whose representatives vote upon new members. For example,Jena joined the Metropolitan Region in 2009. The registered association owns the management company Metropolregion Mitteldeutschland Management GmbH. As such it forms a planning and marketing framework for the region while retaining the legal independence of its members.
Hallescher FC,sometimes still called by its former name Chemie Halle,is a German association football club based in Halle an der Saale,Saxony-Anhalt. The club currently plays in the 3. Liga,the third highest level in the German football league system. For many years,Halle had been in East Germany's highest league,the DDR-Oberliga,up-until the German reunification. However,like many other teams from the former East,it then suffered the effects of economic and demographic decline in the region in the 1990s and fell down to amateur leagues. Since 2000,Hallescher FC has ended its downward trend and in the 2011–2012 season,they finally returned to a professional football league after 20 years of absence.
Curt Lahs was a German painter and arts professor.
Klaus Urbanczyk,nicknamed Banne,is a German former football player and manager. He made 34 appearances for the East Germany national team.
Halle (Saale) Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station in the city of Halle (Saale) in southern part of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The station is situated east of the city centre and is a category 2 station.
The Handel Prize is an annual award,instituted in 1956,which is presented by the city of Halle,in Germany,in honour of the celebrated Baroque composer George Frideric Handel. It is awarded,"for exceptional artistic,academic or politico-cultural services as far as these are connected with the city of Halle's Handel commemoration". The prize consists of a diploma,a gold and enamel badge,and is presented during the annual Handel Festival,Halle.
Halle-Neustadt,popularly known as HaNeu,was a city in the German Democratic Republic. It was established as a new town on 12 May 1967,as an independent and autonomous city. The population in 1972 was 51,600 and in 1981 was more than 93,000. On 6 May 1990,Halle-Neustadt merged back into Halle again. The population has halved since then and was about 45,157 inhabitants on 31 December 2010. Halle Neustadt has been praised for being "sustainable" as a result of its urban planning,which includes high density living,a tram line serving the central corridor and the regional suburban rail system (S-Bahn).
Georg Christoph Biller was a German choral conductor. He conducted the Thomanerchor as the sixteenth Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach from 1992 to 2015. He was also a baritone,an academic teacher,and a composer. Active as Thomaskantor after the German reunification,Biller returned the Thomanerchor to its original focus on church music. He was instrumental in the new buildings for the choir's boarding school,the Forum Thomanum,and in the celebration of its 800th anniversary in 2012.
Bernd Leno is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Fulham and the Germany national team.
The Handel Festival in Halle an der Saale,Saxony-Anhalt,is an international music festival concentrating on the music of George Frideric Handel in the composer's birthplace. It was founded in 1922 and it grew into a center of Handel studies and performance in Europe. Especially Handel's operas have been staged regularly,some of them as first revivals.
Hans-Dietrich-Genscher-Gymnasium Halle is a secondary school (gymnasium) in Germany. It was established in November 1908. Currently,about 600 children attend the school. The school is situated right in the city center of Halle an der Saale and is widely known for its two educational profiles:German secondary school and bilingual English-German profile. In 2009 the school celebrated its 100th anniversary. The school is named after Hans-Dietrich Genscher,a German politician.
Karamba Diaby is a Senegalese-born German chemist and politician of the Social Democratic Party who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since the 2013 elections.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Halle an der Saale,Germany.
Christoph Bernstiel is a German politician in the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 2017 to 2021. In addition,he has served on the Halle (Saale) municipal council since 2014.
Konstanze Musketa is a German musicologist and head of the Library of the Handel House Foundation.
Halle is an electoral constituency represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system,it is designated as constituency 72. It is located in southern Saxony-Anhalt,comprising the city of Halle (Saale) and part of the Saalekreis district.
Bernd Johannes Neuendorf is a German politician,journalist and football administrator who is currently serving as the president of the German Football Association (DFB). He had previously served as the president of the Middle Rhine Football Association from 2019 until his election as DFB president in 2022. Before entering sports,he was the state secretary of the Ministry for Family,Children,Youth,Culture and Sport of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2012 to 2017.
