Halle-Leipzig

Halle¹ and Leipzig are the centers of a metropolitan areas of 1.4 million, although neither city is half that size. Halle is on the Saale River² in east central Germany.³ Leipzig is on the Weisse Elster,⁴ where the river receives two tributaries. In Halle are the four Borns where salt brine was obtained. Leipzig's most famous monument is the Völkerschlachtdenkmal (Battle of the Nations Monument), memorializing a victory against Napoleon's empire. Other sights there are the Panorama Tower,⁵ nicknamed the Wisdom Tooth for its shape; the Reichsgericht, which once housed the supreme court of Germany;⁶ and the church-housed tomb of Johann Sebastian Bach.

The mathematician, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz, was born in Leipzig and wrote a philosophical-mathematical essay, Dissertatio de arte combinatoria, while at the university there.

External references

Leipzig Battle of the Nations Monument

Historical maps

Footnotes

1. Also Halle on the Saale.
2. A tributary of the Elbe.
3. Deutschland in German.
4. A tributary of the Saale.
5. Also called the City-Hochhaus Leipzig.
6. The current court there is the Bundesverwaltungsgericht.