Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #5 in Halle (Saale), Germany

The Villa Ulrich, also known as the house "Zu den sieben Waben", in Halle (Saale), Ratswerder 7, is the former residence of the architect Wilhelm Ulrich, which he had built in 1924/25 according to his own designs and which represents an important style of the 1920s in its expressionist form. In the list of monuments of the city of Halle, the house is listed as a villa under the registration number 094 04957.

Wikipedia: Villa_Ulrich (DE)

St. Georgen, which is now used by the Free Church, stands on the southwestern edge of the city centre of Halle (Saale) outside the former city fortifications in Glaucha, a suburb of Halle. The church was severely damaged in an American air raid on 6 April 1945 and by artillery fire on 16 April. It was repaired in a simplified form, prepared for blasting in 1985 and completely renovated from 1990 onwards.

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St. Moritz, also St. Mauritius, is a church in Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, dedicated to St. Maurice. The late-Gothic hall church was built as an Augustine Stiftskirche from 1388. It features late-Gothic stone sculptures and a notable organ from 1925.

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The Marktkirche Unser Lieben Frauen is a church in the centre of the city of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was built between 1529 and 1554 and is the most recent of the city's medieval churches. In German, its official name is shortened to Liebfrauenkirche but it is also referred to as Marienkirche and the Marktkirche.

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The Handel Monument in Halle (Saale) is the only monument in Germany in honour of the German-British Baroque composer Georg Friedrich Händel. It was realized there in 1859 on the occasion of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the artist's death in a joint effort between Germans and British.

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The Stadthaus of Halle is the neo-Gothic assembly, meeting and festival building on the market square of the city of Halle (Saale) and a listed landmark of the city. In 1903, the German Philologists' Association was founded here.

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The Ratshof is a listed building on the market square of the city of Halle (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The building, which was built at the end of the 1920s, has taken on the function of the city's town hall since the destruction of the Old Town Hall in the Second World War.

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The list of stumbling stones in Halle (Saale) contains all stumbling stones that were laid in Halle (Saale) as part of the art project of the same name by Gunter Demnig. They are intended to commemorate victims of National Socialism who lived and worked in Halle. By May 2024, a total of 288 stones had been laid at 131 addresses; further stones are being planned.

Wikipedia: Liste der Stolpersteine in Halle (Saale) (DE)

The donkey fountain is located on the Old Market Square in the city of Halle (Saale). It was completed in 1913 and is now one of the most famous fountains in the city.

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The Beatles Museum is a museum in Halle (Saale) that initially showed exhibits from an earlier touring exhibition of the Liverpool music band The Beatles. In the meantime, the exhibition has been expanded by about three times and documents the time of the band from its founding (1960) to its dissolution (1970) as well as the solo careers of the band members. The museum is the world's oldest, largest and most extensive public institution dedicated to the Beatles.

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The Künstlerhaus Goldener Pflug is a building at Alter Markt 27 in Halle (Saale). It was built in 1605 and is one of the oldest surviving residential buildings in the city. Since 2013, it has been used by artists for studios and exhibitions.

Wikipedia: Künstlerhaus Goldener Pflug (DE)

St. Francis and St. Elisabeth is the Catholic provost church of Halle (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The church, located in the southern inner city district, district of Mitte, was built from 1894 to 1896 according to plans by the architect Arnold Güldenpfennig as a brick building in the neo-Gothic style and is listed in the list of monuments of the city of Halle under the registration number 094 04870.

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The Francke Foundations, also known as Glauchasche Anstalten were founded in 1695 in Halle, Germany as a Christian, social and educational work by August Hermann Francke

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The Leipzig tower is a freely standing Wartturm, which belonged to the fastening system of the city of Halle (Saale).

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The Stadtgottesacker is a cemetery in the city of Halle an der Saale. It was built from 1557 onwards on the model of the Italian Camposanto complexes and is considered a masterpiece of the Renaissance north of the Alps.

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A Stolperstein is a ten-centimetre (3.9 in) concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. Literally, it means 'stumbling stone' and metaphorically 'stumbling block'.

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