Halle was one of the three Regierungsbezirke of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, located in the south of the country. Becoming effective on January 1, 2004 the Regierungsbezirk was disbanded. Its functions were taken over by the Landesverwaltungsamt, which has three offices at the former seats of the Bezirksregierungen.
Halle on the Saale, is the birthplace of Georg Friedrich Handel.
In Eisleben, Martin Luther was born and in Wittenberg on the Elbe, the Reformation began.
Halle Bitterfeld, Leuna Wolfen, and Merseburg, hitherto centers of the chemical and lignite mining industries, are in a phase of radical change as a result of the misguided policies of the former German Democratic Republic.
Halle (also called Halle an der Saale in order to distinguish from Halle in North Rhine-Westphalia) is the largest town in the German Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt.
After World War II Halle served as the capital of the short-lived administrative region of Saxony-Anhalt (until 1952), when the East German government abolished its "Länder".
Halle was a center of German Pietism and played an important role in establishing the Lutheran church in North America, when Henry Muhlenberg and others were sent as missionaries to Pennsylvania.
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