Qualla: Halle (Westfalen)

Halle (Westfalen): Introduction

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Hagar66, CC BY-SA 3.0. There is exactly one museum in the world devoted to art that famous painters made when they were children. It is in a town of 22,000 people in the southern Teutoburg Forest. The Museum für Werke des Kindes- und Jugendalters berühmter Künstler in Halle (Westfalen) holds paintings made before adolescence by Paul Klee, his son Felix Klee, August Macke, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Pablo Picasso. You can see what a future Cubist drew at age eight, what a future Expressionist sketched at twelve. Halle is the kind of town that does one quiet thing brilliantly - and then does a second, completely different thing brilliantly. The other thing is grass-court tennis.

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Halle (Westfalen): The Salt Town That Wasn't

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Hagar66, CC BY-SA 3.0. Halle was first mentioned on May 9, 1246, when Bishop Engelbert of Osnabrück swapped his church 'tor Halle' on the southern edge of his diocese for the church at Rheda owned by the Benedictine Abbey Iburg. The most common explanation for the town's name - hal, meaning salt - has ...

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Halle (Westfalen): Federer's Lawn

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit User:Drahreg01, CC BY-SA 3.0. Every June, Halle stages one of only a handful of ATP grass-court tournaments in the world - the Halle Open, played at the Gerry Weber Stadion (now the OWL Arena), which Gerry Weber the fashion brand built in 1992–93 because its founder wanted a world-class facility in his hometo...

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Halle (Westfalen): Half-Timber and a Moated Castle

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Hagar66, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Heart of Halle is its tree-lined church square, where the Protestant parish church - originally a 13th-century single-nave building with a 15th-century square choir and a 19th-century northern addition - is surrounded by half-timbered houses, the oldest dated dendrochronologi...

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Halle (Westfalen): Bach and the Burr Mill

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit WiebkeCBo, CC BY-SA 3.0. In February, Halle stages the Haller Bachtage - a week of choir, orchestra, chamber and organ concerts that has drawn international names like Peter Schreier, Thomas Quasthoff and Petr Eben to a town that should be too small to attract them. On the wooded slopes above town stands...

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