Timeline of Halle (Saale)

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Halle an der Saale, Germany.

Prior to 19th century

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• 981 - Town chartered by Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor.^[1]
• 1281 - Halle was an important member of the Hanseatic League^[1]
• 1388 - Moritzkirche (Halle) [de] (church) construction begins.
• 1478 - Halle leaves the Hanseatic League.^[1]
• 1484 - Moritzburg (Halle) (castle) construction begins.^[2]
• 1506 - Roter Turm (Halle) [de] (tower) built.
• 1552 - Marienbibliothek [de] (library) founded.^[3]
• 1554 - Marktkirche Unser Lieben Frauen (church) built.^[2]
• 1648 - After the
  House of Brandenburg^[1]
• 1685 - Future composer George Frideric Handel born in Halle.
• 1694 -
  University founded.^[1]
• 1696 - University library [de] founded.^[3]
• 1751 - Population: 13,460.^(de)

19th century

• 1806 - 17 October: Battle of Halle fought during the War of the Fourth Coalition; French win.^[1]
• 1813 - Town was taken by the Prussians.^[1]
• 1815 -
  University of Halle-Wittenberg active.^[1]
• 1819 - Population: 23,408.⁽de)
• 1870 - Gewerblichen Zeichenschule (school) founded.^[4]
• 1872 - Halle–Cottbus railway begins operating.
• 1880 - Population: 71,484.^[5]
• 1882 - Horse-drawn
  tram
  begins operating.
• 1886 - Stadttheater built.
• 1890 - Halle (Saale) Hauptbahnhof (train station) opens.
• 1894 - Stadthaus (Halle) [de] (city hall) built.
• 1891 - Electric
  tram
  begins operating.
• 1900 - Population: 156,609.^[6]

20th century

• 1905 - Population: 160,031.^[1]
• 1918 - Halle State Museum of Prehistory opens.
• 1919 - Population: 182,326.^[7]
• 1922 - Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle [de] (school) active.
• 1923 - Stadion am Gesundbrunnen (stadium) opens.
• 1940 - Bombing of Halle (Saale) in World War II [de] begins.
• 1944 - Halle concentration camp begins operating.
• 1950 - Turbine Halle (sport club) formed.
• 1966 - Hallescher FC (football club) formed.
• 1967 - City of Halle-Neustadt established near Halle.
• 1990 - Halle-Neustadt becomes part of Halle.^[8]
• 1992 - Halle Institute for Economic Research established.
• 2000 - Verein für hallische Stadtgeschichte (history society) founded.^[9][10]

21st century

• 2006 - Rebuilt Berliner Bridge (Halle) [de] opens.^[8]
• 2011 -
  Erdgas Sportpark
  opens.
• 2012 - Bernd Wiegand becomes mayor.^[8]
• 2015 - Population: 236,991.^(de)

See also

• Halle history (de)
• List of mayors of Halle (Saale) [de]
• List of heritage sites in Halle (Saale) [de]
• History of Saxony-Anhalt

Other cities in the state of Saxony-Anhalt:^(de)

• Timeline of Magdeburg

References

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• "Halle".
  hdl:2027/njp.32101065312900.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
  )
• "Halle", Northern Germany (15th ed.), Leipzig:
  OCLC 78390379 – via Internet Archive
• "Halle" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 853–854.
• John M. Jeep, ed. (2001). "Halle". Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia.
  ISBN 0-8240-7644-3
  .

in German

• hdl:2027/wu.89094689700
  – via HathiTrust.
• "Halle an der Saale".
  hdl:2027/njp.32101064064585
  .
• Sachsen-Anhalt II: Regierungsbezirke Dessau und Halle. Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler (in German). Munich. 1999.
  ISBN 3-422-03065-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
  )
• Friedhilde Krause; Erhardt Mauersberger; Waltraut Guth, eds. (2000). "Halle (Saale)". Sachsen-Anhalt (in German). Georg Olms Verlag.
  ISBN 9783487418179. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help
  )
• "Jahrbuch für hallische Stadtgeschichte", Jahrbuch für Hallische Stadtgeschichte (in German),
  ISSN 1612-8192
  2003-
• Hans-Joachim Kertscher (2012). "Halle an der Saale". In Wolfgang Adam; Siegrid Westphal (eds.). Handbuch kultureller Zentren der Frühen Neuzeit: Städte und Residenzen im alten deutschen Sprachraum [Handbook of cultural centers of the early modern period: cities and capitals in the old German-speaking areas] (in German). De Gruyter. pp. 757–796.
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  .

External links

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