City Convention Bureau

Stadtmarketing Halle (Saale ) GmbH

Halle (Saale)

Location in Germany: State of Saxony-Anhalt
Population: 265,000 inhabitants

Introduction:

Halle is a city of culture and the arts and the historic old town is Germany's largest architectural memorial. Luther's death mask, the world's oldest bible institution, Händel's birth house, the Franckesche Stiftungen foundation - stronghold of German pietism, the Burg Giebichenstein College for Art and Design or the picturesque pastures of the Saale River - there is the right thing for every visitor.
Outstanding facilities for congresses and other events at the seat of Leopoldina, one of the oldest learned societies of the world, and a 500-year-old university complete the range.

Traffic connections:

	Name	Distance
By air	Halle-Leipzig airport	20 km
By rail	ICE, IC, InterRegio, city express trains
By car	A9: Munich-Halle-Berlin autobahn A14: Magdeburg-Halle-Dresden autobahn
Inner-city transport: HAVAG (Hallesche Verkehrs AG) operating a dense network of trams, city express trains and buses

Venues for conferences and other events:
The city of Halle is an ideal place for conferences, congresses and incentives with a good number of hotels, well-equipped conference rooms for up to 1,600 participants and excellent catering.

Following is a selection of the largest conference and congress facilities in and around Halle:

City of Halle	Max. no. of persons/ room size(seat rows) in m²
Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Halle	1.600 persones / 2.000
Kempinski Hotel & Congress Center Rotes Ross	1.050 persones / 1.300
MARITIM Hotel Halle	900 persones / 1.100
Franckesche Stiftungen	400 persones / 400
Dorint Charlottenhof Halle (Saale)	140 persones / 165
InterCityHotel	130 persones / 206
Hotel Ankerhof	120 persones / 180
Hotel Apart	76 persones /90
Hotel Europa	40 persones / 57
Around Halle
Globana Trade Center	1.000 persones / 1.650
Schloss Teutschenthal	250 persones / 350
Landgasthaus Sattelhof	100 persones / 300
Kurpark Hotel Bad Lauchstädt	100 persones / 100
Details on each is available under http://www.stadtmarketing-halle.de/ in the internet.

Accommodation:

Category	No. of hotels	Beds
Luxury & First Class	3	902
Tourist & Economy	11	1.572

 

Service:
Stadtmarketing Halle (Saale) GmbH offers the following services:

• Competent organizational consulting assistance in the preparation, running and follow-up of your event
• Provision of congress/conference rooms
• Registration of your meeting participants
• Booking and administration of hotel and private lodging for congress/conference participants
• Supporting acts, such as guided tours of the city or outings with multilingual guides
• Bus shuttle and catering
• Free information material for conference/congress participants

Business & Science
Halle an der Saale - city of industry

Major producers of well-known products:

• Bombardier Transportation
• DWA Deutsche Waggonbau GmbH
• ABB Transformatoren GmbH
• Mitteldeutsche Erdölraffinerie Leuna

Major transport companies:

• Flughafen Leipzig-Halle
• DB AG, Regionalbereich Süd-Ost
• Hafen Halle GmbH

Halle an der Saale - city of science

• Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
• College for Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein
• Leopoldina Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher
• Max Planck Institute for Microstructural Physics
• Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
• Fraunhofer Institute for Materials Mechanics

Incentives
Incentives of all kinds will be organized and managed on request
(also see under Service)

Events:  

Events 2006
22.-24.09.06	Salzfest mit Bergparade deutscher Salzstädte
Events 2007
31.01.-04.02.07	„Woman in Jazz“ – 2. Internationales Jazzfestival
23.02.07	Happy Birthday Händel
03.-05.05.07	28. Internationales Kinderchorfestival
31.05.-10.06.07	Händelfestspiele
24.-26.08.07	Laternenfest
22.-24.09.07	Stadtspektakel

 

Culture & sights:

It is a fact that ....

• Halle lies on the Saale River and is over a thousand years old;
• Halle owns the oldest and the youngest castle ever built on the Saale River;
• Halle's old town is Europe's largest architectural memorial;
• Halle is home to a 500-year-old university;
• Halle had the first electrical tram in Europe;
• Halle has been setting the tempo with the world's fastest steam-powered locomotive;
• Halle has the world's oldest secular boys' choir enrich its cultural life;
• Halle is the Georg Friedrich Händel's birth town;
• Halle is the place where Martin Luther's death mask can be seen;
• Halle protects Europe's longest fire brigade half-timbered building;
• Halle has German's oldest mountain zoo with animals croaking, quacking, bleating and cheeping;
• Halle is the seat of Germany's oldest chocolate factory making the city the sweetest temptation;
• Halle's actor Peter Sodann is the city's best-known TV detective superintendent • Halle has been the chief scene of several crime thrillers;
• Halle is the venue of the international children's choir festival "Be Merry and Sing";
• Halle's over 800 restaurants and pubs give it Saxony-Anhalt's most varied gastronomical scene;
• Halle's Rolf Becker, locally known as "Rolf, the hurdy-gurdy man", even made it in the Guiness World Records;
• Halle saw the promotion of Germany's first female doctor;
• Halle invented the pickled egg;
• Halle is the place where the famous Hoffmann's Drops against stomach upset;
• Halle is considered the place of the first public evangelical church library in Germany;
• Halle is the place of the world's oldest Bible institution;
• Halle's Petersberg is the highest elevation on this latitude to the Urals;
• Halle was an inspiration to famous personages like Feininger, Eichendorff, Goethe, Novalis and Tieck;
• Halle wrote world history through Hans-Dietrich Genscher;
• Halle has been the venue of Europe's only bus drivers' meeting;

Any and all good and valid reasons to come to Halle (Saale)!