Talk:Halle (Saale)

message: About Halle-Neustadt: Actually, the flats Halle-Neustadt were very sought-after by GDR citizens. The architecture is considered ugly by some, but this part of the city has an infrastructure and a concept as a whole other cities can only dream of. And there is absolutely no rational reason to dislike it. About the moving to other cities: _ALL_ east german cities except Dresden are shrinking massively, this has nothing to do with the architecture.
141.30.217.10 20:57, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening comment 

message: I don't see why the largest photo has to be that stupid communist monument with the fists, which was demolished long ago.  Halle has plenty of better monuments, e.g. the church where Handel was organist.  Halle is his birthplace, afterall.
Dunnhaupt 21:12, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illustrations 

message: Please introduce the Infobox German Location with image. It provides a coherent look among German cities. Lear 21 23:01, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template:Infobox German Location]] 

message: I have never heard of "some references" that call this city by the name of its river, and I doubt they exist.  Etymologically the Germanic root "hall" and the Latin root "sal" BOTH mean "salt".--dunnhaupt (talk) 15:06, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Saale?

message: As a reader, I don't get "Halle (Saale)" at all.  I actually feel a bit of anxiety reading it, because I can't tell if the name of the city is Halle, or Saale, or what the parentheses mean.  Could someone please fix it?  I would fix it myself, but I don't know the right fix.  Maybe it just needs an explanation of what the parens mean.  Thanks.  The Letter J (talk) 22:14, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: It is a rather widespread idea that the name of the city is somehow connected to salt.
Yet, it was suggested by a professor of the German Language Institute of the Martin Luther University (I could look up the name of the professor if anyone's interested) that it is more likely that the name derived from what is now "hill" in English or "Halde" in German, as there is actually a noticable slope, called Hallesche Marktplatzverwerfung (market place fault). Incidentally, this fault is responsible for the saline wells.
There are several words related to "Halde", such as: Low German "hull", Old Norse "hallr", Gothic "hallus", or Swedish "hälla". These (especially the last one) closely resemble the word by which Halle was first mentioned: "Halla"; in the Deutsches Wörterbuch by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (Vol. 10) you'll also find the root "hal" (leaning) for "Halde", which basically is one of the older names of the city: "Hall in Sachsen" (Hall in Saxony).
So it is debatable whether or not "Halle" derives from salt or hill. Consequently, the article should either mention or omit both theories.
Kaizoebara (talk) 08:25, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology of Halle 

message: As I understand it are cities and towns in Germany often either "Kreisfreie Stadt" (City without countryside) or not. Different, but similar to City or Town. (There also exists cities wich are "Bundesländer" or "countries, lands" as well as being a City but there are only three of those, Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen with Bremerhafen. I think it's of significance in Germany somehow. And we should perhaps mention which status German Cities and Towns have ? Boeing720 (talk) 03:20, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: All is explained at List of districts of Germany.  Skinsmoke (talk) 12:27, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Kreisfreie Stadt" - or not 

message: I'm a bit confused. Is the city called "Halle" in Welsh and "Saale" in some other language? Irish? German? A name like "XXXX (YYYY)" usually means the city is officially called the first name and also known as the second name, but this doesn't seem to be the case here. Or is it? The IPA in the lead seems to suggest it is actually "Halle on the Saale", but that's not what the article is called. What's going on here? Do the parentheses mean something else in German? Has the article been machine translated from German and never fixed? --86.185.119.15 (talk) 22:07, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: To my knowledge it is a German standard to name places by a nearby geographic feature if the name is found in other places, such as Halle. As the city of Halle in Saxony-Anhalt is located by the river Saale, it is named "Halle an der Saale", shortened to "Halle (Saale)" to distinguish it from other Halle's. Other examples are Freiburg an der Elbe/Freiburg im Breisgau, Frankfurt an der Oder/Frankfurt am Main etc. MoRsE (talk) 12:28, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is this city actually called? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The present content of the section Since German unity (after 1990) solely consists of a sentence about Halle being demoted as a regional capital, plus a long list of groups of "foreign residents", who collectively comprise less than 6 percent of Halle's population.  I find this emphasis on the small number of foreign residents odd.  Is this really the second-most notable thing about Halle since 1990?  Is it some kind of POV-pushing about the immigrant population?  Ketone16 (talk) 18:23, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I decided to remove this list since it was added in March and May 2018 by anonymous user whose IP address has been tagged for vandalism, the list has no citations to reliable sources, and it appears to be a product of POV-pushing that is prohibited under Wikipedia policy. Ketone16 (talk) 00:17, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Largest Groups of Foreign Residents"?