Trädgård i halle
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Damm & Fisk · Japanska Trädgårdar. The largest city in Saxony-Anhalt, Halle is a former ducal town rich in history. The Baroque composer George Frideric Handel was born in Halle in and lived here to the age of His birthplace has been preserved, and you can call in at the churches where he was baptised and played the organ. All through the Middle Ages up to Halle was part of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, whose ruling archbishop-electors founded stately castles in the city at Moritzburg and the Neue Residenz.
Martin Luther preached at the Marktkirche three times, and years later, George Frideric Handel was baptised here. Handel received his first organ lessons on the small organ above the altar, while Johann Sebastian Bach played the organ in the west gallery when it was inaugurated in The permanent exhibition begins at the start of the Stone Age and ends in the early Iron Age, roughly 2, years ago.
This bronze disc, 30 centimetres in diameter was dug up 60 kilometres away and dates back 3, years. The Nebra sky disk is the oldest known representation of the night sky, depicting the stars, sun and crescent moon. The work is so sophisticated that it was believed to be a forgery until its age was verified scientifically. His father, Georg had purchased the property in , and the building itself dates back to at least The tradition of painting the facade yellow is from the first half of the 17th century, when the house was known as the Zum Gelben Hirsch the Yellow Stag.
The museum has three main strands: Handel, the musical history of the Halle region and a collection of historic musical instruments. In Halle since the start of the 19th century The Halloren Chocolate Factory is the oldest chocolate factory in Germany still in business. More than two centuries of chocolate-making expertise is revealed at the museum, which has puzzles for little ones, antique chocolate-making equipment and multi-sensory installations like a listening station and scent wall.
One of the landmarks not on this list is a 3. The tower was 88 years in the making, and was completed in the Late Gothic style in If you squint you can just make out the cluster of spikes on the gilded orb at the very top of the spire. The tower has a carillon of 76 bells, the largest in Europe with a total weight of almost 55 tons.
The smallest weighs only The courtroom and banquet hall are historic and their coffered ceilings and wood-panelled walls reveal the splendour of the original palace. Neustadt was designed to be healthy, modern and comfortable, but also instil an ideology in its inhabitants. In these monolithic concrete towers all apartments were aligned to capture the sun, and distances between amenities was minimised to avoid traffic.
Almost half of all the space was allocated as parkland, while the rapid transit railway delivered workers to their factories in a matter of minutes. Originally east of the city walls, the Stadtgottesacker is a Renaissance cemetery created in The cemetery is enclosed by a wall, and facing inwards are 94 beautifully ornamented arcades sheltering tombs.
You can also locate the graves of some important personalities like Georg Händel father , the 17th-century philosopher Christian Thomasius and 18th-century Lutheran clergyman and philanthropist August Hermann Francke. Within 30 years the Francke Foundations had become a large educational complex with teacher training facilities and even businesses like a publishing house and pharmacy.
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The name Hallors comes from a brotherhood of salt-workers founded at the end of the 15th century. This museum is in the old Royal Prussian Saltworks, preserved facilities from the s to the s. Here you can see how the brine was boiled in ceramic evaporation vessels to produced salt crystals. There are also glass cases containing ceremonial artefacts related to the brotherhood like cups and trophies dating back to the 17th century.
What started out as a simple Dominican monastery church was transformed in by Cardinal Albert of Brandenburg, the Archbishop of Magdeburg. Together with the Neue Residenz palace next door he constructed the most powerful monastery north of the Alps at the time. The interior is still rich with Renaissance art, the best of which is the cycle of 17 statues on the pillars, dating to and depicting Christ and the Apostles.
Hints of Italian Renaissance architecture are visible in its arches and courtyards. On Alter Markt, in a grand Baroque residence from is a museum for a more modern music phenomenon. The museum was a travelling exhibition at first before settling in Halle in There are 3, exhibits for almost anything Beatles-related, be it vintage posters, autographs, stamps, rare LPs, photos, magazines or fan souvenirs.
The indoor crocodile house for example has alligators and crocodiles in a heated environment, while iguanas and exotic birds are able to roam freely in the tropical house. Home About Privacy Policy Contact. Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn.